Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters.… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Some people say, 'Do you have any theories on acting?' And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay,… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.' — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Well, it's like my movie, 'The Apostle.' Some people in the North don't get that movie. They think that, in the South, if you… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
