As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.
I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.
This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes.
If I am duly compared to Marlon Brando at all, well, I can only think of The Teahouse of the 'Shanghai Noon,' that they're comparing me to that!
I've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back. If you are going to have any chance of replicating life, you need to live it. I also never forgot something Johnny Depp said to me, which Marlon Brando said to him, 'You only have so many faces in your pocket. ' I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.
I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.
But the people I admire have always been people like Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson and Jack Lemmon.
Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine.
I really loved the idea of playing opposite Marlon Brando and being the crazy one.
I'd worked with Marlon [Brando] a couple of times, and he was a practical joker. He was far more interested in getting jokes out than getting the words out. We laughed all the time.
If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.
You are always a comedian by default. You are this way because you've been forced to be this way, but it is better to be the hero. So if you can be a persona, the great one of my lifetime of course was and is Marlon Brando.
You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes
I personally can watch an eight-hour documentary on Woody Allen because I'm fascinated by him. But, an audience can't really sit through more than two and a half hours on any movie. It doesn't matter if Marlon Brando came back from the dead. It's just impossible.
There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.
The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.
Marlon [Brando] showed me that you could do the work and not have to shut yourself off from people or your family.
I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.
