Robert Duvall Quotes

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• The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's not…
• Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.
• The one you fight with the most is always the one who’s most like you.
• Never use money to measure wealth, son.
• We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.
• I take a vitamin every day; it's called a steak.
• Cows is one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else.
• You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the…
• I like to do things that I develop from the ground up.
• 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.
• If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.
• I'm a man without a corporation.
• When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad.
• There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding.
• When you dance tango fast, you have to think slow.
• I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to…
• I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.'
• What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.
• It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home.…
• Some people say, 'Do you have any theories on acting?' And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero and end with…

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