Well, it's like my movie, 'The Apostle.' Some people in the North don't get that movie. They think that, in the South,… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
You gotta be careful with message movies. People say "What do you want people to take away from it?" I always say… — 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… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
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
Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western.… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee,… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and… — 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
What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women… — 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
