Marlon Brando Quotes

The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks.

We all have split personalities; we all wear masks at some point in our careers.

The plays I choose to work on are about having masks. We all have masks in life, but there is a different inner life going on. The audience has to work hard to see what is going on. I love what is not on display.

I have several different masks that I wear.

A mask tells us more than a face.

Masks are what they seem to be; not so the faces beneath them.

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a camera or when you're on stage. There are some people who carry it all the time. That, to me, is not acting.

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

You can see it right away when a person is dressing outside of who she is.

I'm not really an impersonator.

When I've got all the makeup on and all the spit, polish and glue together, I look fine. But I know what I really look like, and I'm still that same little kid under there. I don't think I look that great. I think I did a good job of creating Morgan Fairchild. But I created her.

No one is ever who they purport to be.

Very few of us are what we seem.

The voice that arms itself to be heard. / The face that hides itself to be seen.

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be.

I'm not a fake one.

You are what you pretend to be.

For the people that I love I only have one face but for some people we can't have one face.

I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.

Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.