Marlon Brando movie quotes

View Quote [to Bonasera] I want you to use all your powers and all your skills. I don't want his mother to see him this way. [sobbing] Look how they massacred my boy.

View Quote [While talking to Tom Hagen about his career] A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

View Quote [to Tom Hagen]Tattaglia's a pimp. He never could've out-fought Santino. But I didn't know until this day that it was Barzini all along.

View Quote We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig. Cow after cow. Village after village. Army after army. And they call me an assassin. What do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassin? They lie. They lie, and we have to be merciful, for those who lie. Those nabobs. I hate them. I do hate them.

View Quote Have you ever thought about any real freedoms? Freedom from the opinions of others...even from the opinions of yourself?

View Quote I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. It's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor ... and surviving.

View Quote to Johnny Friendly

View Quote Conscience... that stuff can drive you nuts!

View Quote You think you're God Almighty, but you know what you are? You're a cheap, lousy, dirty, stinkin' mug! And I'm glad what I done to you, ya hear that? I'm glad what I done!

View Quote [as Jeanne puts her hands on his crotch] That is your happiness, and my hap-penis.

View Quote Even if a husband lives 200 **** years, he'll never discover his wife's true nature. I may be able to understand the secrets of the universe, but... I'll never understand the truth about you. Never.

View Quote Well, first you have to take a hot bath and if you don't you're gonna get pneumonia. Right?... and then you know what happens? You get pneumonia... and then you know what happens? You die! And then, you know what happens then when you die? I get to **** the dead rat!

View Quote A chance for life, nonetheless...as opposed to us, you cannot ignore these facts! It's SUICIDE! No, it's worse. It's GENOCIDE...!

View Quote [answering criticism from the Council leader] My friends, you know me to be neither rash nor impulsive. I'm not given...to wild, unsupported statements. And I tell you we must evacuate this planet immediately!

View Quote Live as one of them, Kal-El, to discover where your strength and your power are needed. Always hold in your heart the pride of your special heritage. They can be a great people, Kal-El; they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you...my only son.

View Quote Mildred: Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against?
Johnny: What've you got?

View Quote [voiceover] It begins here for me on this road. How the whole mess happened, I don't know. But I know it couldn't happen again in a million years. Maybe I coulda stopped it early. But once the trouble was on its way, I was just goin' with it. Mostly, I remember the girl. I - I can't explain it. Sad chick like that. But somethin' changed in me. She got to me. Well that's later, anyway. This is where it begins for me. Right on this road.

View Quote Kathie: Where are you going when you leave here? Don't you know?
Johnny: [scoffing] Oh man, we just gonna go.
Kathie: Just trying to make conversation. It means nothing to me.
Johnny: Well, on the weekends, we go out and have a ball.
Kathie: And what do you do? I mean, do you just ride around? Or do you go on some sort of a picnic or something?
Johnny: A picnic? Man, you are too square. I'll have to straighten you out. Now, listen, you don't go any one special place. That's cornball style. You just go. [He snaps his fingers.] A bunch gets together after all week it builds up, you just...the idea is to have a ball. Now if you gonna stay cool, you got to wail. You got to put somethin' down. You got to make some jive. Don't you know what I'm talkin' about?

View Quote Stella. Hey, Stella!

View Quote You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky, that's all... To hold a front position in this rat-race, you've got to believe you are lucky.

View Quote Don't you ever talk that way to me. "Pig," "Polack," "disgusting," "vulgar," "greasy" — those kind of words have been on your tongue and your sister's tongue just too much around here. What do you think you are, a pair of queens? Now just remember what Huey Long said — that every man's a king — and I'm the king around here, and don't you forget it.

View Quote I have almost achieved perfection you see, of a divine creature that is pure, harmonious, absolutely incapable of malice. And if in my tinkering I have fallen short of the human form by the snout, claw or hoof, it really is of no great importance. I am closer that you could possibly imagine sir.

View Quote Hyena-Swine: Tell me. Why you make the pain, if we are your children?
Dr. Moreau: Uh... you see, you are my children, but law is necessary.
Hyena-Swine: If there is no more pain. [looks at his other associates, turns back to Moreau] Then is there no more law, hm?
Dr. Moreau: There is always law.

View Quote Dr. Moreau: Well, Mr. Douglas, very good of you to join us. Please tell me, is the Devil still pursuing you?
[Moreau and Montgomery chuckle]
Edward Douglas: Well, perhaps you could explain to me what you mean by the Devil? You seem to be on terms with him.
Dr. Moreau: Well, permit me, Mr. Douglas, to tell you something of the Devil as I've come to know him. The Devil is that element in human nature that impels us to destroy and debase.
Edward Douglas: And what are you about upon this island but destruction and debasement?
Dr. Moreau: Oh well, I can tell you very plainly...
[Majai interrupts by putting his foot on the dinner table to which Dr.Moreau reacts]
Dr. Moreau: No please, don't do that.
[Majai removes foot from table]
Dr. Moreau: For seventeen years, I have been striving to create... some measure of refinement in the human species, you see. And it is here, on this very island, that I sir, have found the very essence of the Devil.
Edward Douglas: What do you mean?
Dr. Moreau: I have seen the Devil, in my microscope, and I have chained him, and I suppose you could say in a sense metaphorically speaking, I have cut him to pieces. The Devil, Mr. Douglas, I've found is nothing more than a tiresome collection of genes, and it is with great assurance that I can tell you, that Lucifer, Son of the Morning, is no more.

View Quote [to Nick] My God! Let me get a look at you. You know, you look like shit. What's your secret?

View Quote [to Jack] You're not smart enough to know where your dick is!

View Quote Nick Wells: If you want me to do this, you gotta pay me what's right. It's gotta be that way.
Max: [Indignant] I always pay you what's right.
Nick: You always think you do. I always know what you pay me. It's not always right.

View Quote [Opening lines] You will travel far, my little Kal-El. But we will never leave you... even in the face of our deaths. You will make my strength your own. See my life through your own eyes, as your life will be seen through mine. The son becomes the father, and the father...the son.

View Quote Even though you've been raised as a human being, you are not one of them. They can be a great people, Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason, above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you... my only son.

View Quote Jor-El: My son. You do not remember me. I am Jor-El. I am your father. By now I will have been dead for many thousands of your years.
Lex Luthor: He thinks I'm his son?
Jor-El: Embedded in the crystals before you is the total accumulation of all literature and scientific fact of dozens of other worlds spanning the twenty-eight known galaxies.
Kitty Kowalski: Can he see us?
Lex Luthor: No, he's dead.
Jor-El: There are many questions to be asked. Here, in this Fortress of Solitude, we will try to find the answers together. So, my son...Kal-El...speak.
Lex Luthor: Tell me everything. Starting with crystals.

View Quote [after killing a man, dressed in a bonnet and shawl] Granny's tired now.

View Quote I'd like almost anythin' better 'n' bein' burnt up.

View Quote Well, you're about the last of your kind, old man. If I was a better businessman than I am a man hunter, I'd put you in the circus.

View Quote I want to know what your dreams and your hopes are that got lost along the way while I was thinking about myself.

View Quote I just feel as though we've surrendered our lives to the momentum of mediocrity.