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The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.


Marlon Brando

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The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
MARLON BRANDO I'd like to win an Oscar and then refuse it so I can protest the way they've treated Marlon ...
MICHAEL HORSE Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON If I am duly compared to Marlon Brando at all, well, I can only think of The Teahouse of the 'Sh...
TOM HARDY Hollywood is lacking realness in their female characters. I don't think I'm the only one who...
NICOLE HOLOFCENER The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.
GEORGE A. ROMERO It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have be...
JOHN FORSYTHE That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than...
DREW BLEDSOE I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.
DAVID CRONENBERG I don't need a trailer; I don't need to have the luxuries of what is Hollywood, which is why...
VICKY MCCLURE Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive m...
MARILYN MONROE I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
ELI WALLACH It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.
ADAM CAROLLA I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.
BETTE DAVIS As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like ...
RYAN GOSLING I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
ELIA KAZAN 'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't...
ERIC ANDRE I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood g...
LAURA HARRING Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don&...
FRANK GEHRY I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason fo...
GEORGE GAYLORD SIMPSON I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I&...
LENA HORNE People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the Unit...
GAEL GARCIA BERNAL I don't see Hollywood as the big enemy, because this is where the money is, and not all of the c...
BALTASAR KORMAKUR I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing ...
ELON MUSK I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes...
ARUNDHATI ROY Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.
HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN I came out here with one suit and everybody said I looked like a bum. Twenty years later Marlon Bran...
HUMPHREY BOGART The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it ...
JUAN WILLIAMS I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, ...
NATALIE WOOD The only thing I'm afraid of is bees. I don't like bees. I'm allergic to them.
KOBE BRYANT You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been o...
EDDIE MURPHY I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
CALVIN KLEIN I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood.
ERIC CANTONA I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mi...
NEKO CASE I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don&#...
HARRISON FORD The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the ho...
NAT KING COLE Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough w...
BARBRA STREISAND Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that...
LILLIAN HELLMAN I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. I've never been interested in being on any of them. I don...
HANNAH WARE I don't read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don't know.
SUZAN-LORI PARKS I don't like when an Asian-American actor says, 'I'm entering this business to change Ho...
JOHN CHO I'm not - I'm not a person looking for money. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. I do...
CARL PALADINO I'm a prize fighter. Titles don't pay bills. I fight for money. I'm making money. They&#...
BROCK LESNAR The only reason why I tend to pass on a movie is either I don't think I'm right for the mate...
NICOLAS CAGE I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of...
EDDIE MURPHY I'm embarrassed to say that I don't have a lot of hobbies. It's not because I don't ...
MIKE COLTER I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reaso...
PATRICK DUFFY I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing to...
HEATH LEDGER It doesn't matter about money and fame and whatever. I really don't care about that. My thin...
ATTICUS SHAFFER I don't follow trends. I'm just not into what everyone else is wearing. I have my own look, ...
KATY PERRY I would say I'm more traditional than I am superstitious. I don't, for example, have to do t...
TROY POLAMALU The honest truth is no, I don't feel like I arrived. I don't feel like I'm worthy. My pu...
ADAM GREEN I don't talk about how old I am because sometimes it can affect parts that you get in Hollywood....
GARRETT CLAYTON If studios don't get their money back, we don't have any movies. So it is important that fil...
RIDLEY SCOTT Sometimes you wanna be James Bond, and sometimes you wanna be Marlon Brando until you realize you ca...
ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. I don't have muscle tone. I'm just flab. I'm not a daredevil. I don't like pain, I d...
CHARLENE TILTON I don't care about the money. I'm just interested in the perks. I'll do a series if I am...
HARRY MORGAN Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy w...
DAVID DUCHOVNY I have no interest in changing Hollywood. Hollywood is a place so consumed by the spirit of the worl...
STEPHEN BALDWIN I'm not going to throw chairs; I'm not going to cuss. I'm not going to do that kind of s...
ANDRE WARD Life is short, so I'm knowing exactly where I'm putting my time. I don't want to do thin...
MIRA NAIR I'm careful to pay every single penny on my taxes. I don't have any money offshore.
JERRY DELLA FEMINA This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because...
COLIN KAEPERNICK People say, 'I'm only suing for the principle of the thing,' and I reply that I can'...
JOSEPH WAPNER I love Marlon Brando. Never seem him bad, just less good.
LEE MARVIN I don't know if I'd do well in a structured, corporate environment. I'm very open. I sha...
DANA BRUNETTI I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.
SLASH They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn'...
ADAM GARCIA You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I ...
MAYA ANGELOU I don't crave Hollywood.
IAIN GLEN I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.
LIAM GALLAGHER I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on se...
KRISTEN STEWART I'm 51; I'm younger than Tony Blair. I don't have a dicky heart; I'm up like a broom...
GEORGE GALLOWAY Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don'...
ETTA JAMES I don't have interns. I don't have a manager. I don't have assistants. I don't have ...
BRUCE DICKINSON I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's...
AIDAN QUINN I'm quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don't look so go...
TOM RILEY 'Black' is an adjective, in my book, and the way I use it, sometimes I'll say 'black...
THURGOOD MARSHALL I'm an only child, so I don't even have nieces or nephews.
CHARLIE ROSE I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one ha...
DAVID MORSE All I'm doing is I'm filling out my tax returns - or my accountants are, and I'm paying ...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN They don't have the edge that I need. I'm not interested in reliving 1988.
SEBASTIAN BACH One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it a...
PIERS ANTHONY The reason I don't tweet as much as I used to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinio...
ZAYN MALIK Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a g...
IAN MCEWAN I have to keep working because, although I have land, I'm not cash rich and don't have the w...
MIRIAM MARGOLYES For some reason, I'm the guy people love to hate, which I think is weird. People who know me fin...
DAVE BAUTISTA Nobody wants to sit where I'm sitting and say, 'Hey, this is the reality. I did two movies, ...
BETH BRODERICK I just like to keep my money in the bank; I'm not a big risk-taker. I don't know anything ab...
WAYNE GRETZKY I'm a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I&...
KEVIN HART I'm actually no longer a strict vegan. I don't hang out in the cheese section - I don't ...
JASON MRAZ I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable a...
HARRISON FORD I don't flirt and I don't play the people that I'm meeting with.
SHERILYN FENN I've found over the years that for some reason, people either are big fans and have to use me, o...
FRED WILLARD I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I ...
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