Robert Duvall Quotes

Everybody else, they're wonderful, but [Robert] Duvall sets the tone for all of cinema acting. So just to be in his space…

— Peter Jacobson

My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.

— Walton Goggins

I sat next to Robert Duvall at the lawyers' table for six weeks, and it's still probably the best six weeks of…

— Peter Jacobson

I grew up watching Marlon Brando, Christopher Walken, Robert de Niro, and Al Pacino and even Robert Duvall and was impressed by…

— Cole Hauser

I really love Robert Duvall, who I think is maybe the best American actor. I love Robert Duvall because the ability that…

— William Forsythe

Robert Duvall saw me playing at a restaurant in Louisiana and invited me to be an extra in his movie 'The Apostle.'…

— Hunter Hayes

When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a…

— Eddie Marsan

“I offer you a second way of approaching the moment where everything in your life just stops, this one from the actor…

— Joan Didion

'Lonesome Dove' was the movie. I watched that over and over and over again, and I know every line. It was one…

— Jesse Plemons

Robert Duvall taught me years ago. He said, "You know theatre is not real. I don't like plays." You know, he doesn't…

— Billy Bob Thornton

One of my earliest memories, movie-related or otherwise, is of seeing a man dunking a man's head in a toilet on television,…

— David Lowery

I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of those actors with whom I'd work…

— D. B. Sweeney

“Bad or good, movies nearly always have a strange diminishing effect on works of fantasy (of course there are exceptions; The Wizard…

— Stephen King