Robert Duvall Quotes

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• There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.
• Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.
• Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.
• When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.
• I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I…
• I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live…
• I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making…
• I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a…
• I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such…
• I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost…
• I'm getting good offers, as good as ever sometimes. I just finished a thing with Billy Bob Thornton that was the most unique part I've…
• It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.
• My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a…
• Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say,…
• 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 four…
• The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things…
• The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I…
• Way, way, way back I played a little bit, but I am definitely not a golfer. You know, it just takes too much time anyway…
• 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 like that: good…
• You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a…

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