Johnny: You think you're too good for me. Nobody's too good for me! Anybody thinks they're too good for me, I make sure I knock 'em over sometime. Right now, I could slap you around to show you how good you are and tomorrow, I'm someplace else and I don't even know you or nothing.


--Marlon Brando (as ) in The Wild One

Maj. Weldon Penderton: [to Leonora] You disgust me.


--Marlon Brando (as Maj. Weldon Penderton) in Reflections in a Golden Eye

Maj. Weldon Penderton: I'm sorry, Leonora. It's just all this clutter is...
Leonora: What's the matter with clutter? I like it.
Maj. Weldon Penderton: I'd rather live without it. Bare floors. Plain white walls. No window curtains. Nothing but essentials.
Leonora: If that's the way you feel about it, why don't you resign your commission and start all over again as an enlisted man?
Maj. Weldon Penderton: Of course you're laughing at it, but there's much to be said for the life of men among men... with no... luxuries, no ornamentation. Utter simplicity. It's rough and it's coarse, perhaps, but it's also clean - it's clean as a rifle. There's no speck of dust inside or out... and it's immaculate in its hard young fitness... its chivalry. They're seldom out of one another's sight. They eat, and they train, and they shower, and they play jokes... and go to the brothel together. They sleep side by side. The barracks room offers many a lesson in courtesy and how not to give offense. They guard the next man's privacy as though it was their own. And the friendships, my lord. There are friendships formed that are stronger than... stronger than the fear of death. And - they're never lonely. They're never lonely. And sometimes I envy them... well, good night.


--Marlon Brando (as Maj. Weldon Penderton) in Reflections in a Golden Eye

Maj. Weldon Penderton: Now, a man does not flee because... um... he's fighting in an unjust cause. He does not attack because his cause is just. He flees 'cause he's the weaker. And he conquers 'cause he's the stronger. Or more to the point because his leaders made him feel stronger. Rommel... Patton, Marshall, MacArthur. They - they had it. How did they - uh... how did they make their troops believe they were stronger? Leadership is intangible... hard to measure, difficult to describe. Leadership must include a measure of inherent ability to control... uh... and direct self-confidence... based on initiative, loyalty to superiors, and a sense of pride. Pride. It's far easier to recognize a leader, than to define leadership in clear and in universally understood terms. Now... is leadership - uh... learned? Is it taught? Is a man born with it? How did it come to Patton?... Uh, class dismissed.


--Marlon Brando (as Maj. Weldon Penderton) in Reflections in a Golden Eye

Matt Fletcher: The next time you point a gun at me, you better pull that trigger, because I'm going to blow you into so many pieces your friends will get tired of looking for you.


--Marlon Brando (as Matt) in The Appaloosa

Rio: Get up, you big tub of guts!


--Marlon Brando (as Rio) in One-Eyed Jacks

Rio: Get up! Get up, you scum suckin' pig!


--Marlon Brando (as Rio) in One-Eyed Jacks

Rio: I don't know, Dad. You may not want me around too long. You may be retired from robbin' banks, Dad; but I'm still in business.


--Marlon Brando (as Rio) in One-Eyed Jacks

Rio: You may be a one eyed jack around here, but I've seen the other side of your face.


--Marlon Brando (as Rio) in One-Eyed Jacks

Sakini: Pain make man think. Thought make man wise. Wisdom make life endurable.


--Marlon Brando (as Sakini) in The Teahouse of the August Moon