“Dodie: "Mama, Jamie's up on the hill and he's f***g a goat!"Mama: "Well, it's Jamie's goat, ain't it?"-Peter Manso illustrates the brash wit pervasive in the Brando family with this exchange between Dodie Brando, Marlon's mother, and her mother in-law.”

“Real painters grunt like Marlon Brando”

“The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money." —Marlon Brando”

“Mother! Katie remembered. She had called her own mother "mama" until the day she had told her that she was going to marry Johnny. She had said, "Mother, I'm going to marry..." She had never said "mama" after that. She had finished growing up when she stopped calling her mother “mama.” Now Francie…”

“Mama wasn’t Mama anymore, she was Mother, usually followed by a “pallease!”

“[on why he considers Marlon Brando and Jean-Louis Trintignant to be his favorite actors] They don't externalize or project everything. They keep a mystery within themselves, and that I think is the sign of a truly great actor, to be able to maintain that.”