Robert Duvall Quotes

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• Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.
• I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.
• I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid…
• The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep…
• I am getting some good offers still. Some nice things are coming my way just as they always have, so unless I lose my inspiration…
• A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies.
• Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.
• Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.
• But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those…
• God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.
• High Noon is a pretty corny movie.
• I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.
• I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.
• I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.
• I try not to look for messages in films.
• If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.
• One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.
• Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.
• Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you…
• Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

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