Karl Malden

“Don't leave home without it.”

“What'll you do? What'll you do?”

“Working with Brando was a joy. He was a force of nature. It was like acting with a volcano.”

“You work with the best, you learn from the best.”

“I feel that what you should do is to be a good person, and then the acting will take care of itself.”

“I always tell students that the first thing you have to do is to get a part. The second thing is to do a good job. And the third thing is not to be a pain in the ass.”

“My nose has been broken so many times, I don't know which way to point it.”

“The thing that I'm most proud of is that I have been a working actor for 55 years.”

“An actor's life is a bit of a gypsy's life.”

“I'm not a star. I'm a character actor.”

“You know, the camera is a liar, you know; it's not the truth, the lens.”

“I am a character actor. I have to find a character in the script, and then I play him.”