Quotes By Robert Duvall
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 don't shout, you can't play one of those guys.
Robert Duvall
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 or there is too much drool to wipe, I will keep going.
Robert Duvall
Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.
Robert Duvall
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
I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.
Robert Duvall
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
Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.
Robert Duvall
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 lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.
Robert Duvall
Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.
Robert Duvall
As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.
Robert Duvall
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 great general.
Robert Duvall
The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have gotten the money.
Robert Duvall
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 zero. You don't have to go anywhere, you don't have to go for the result.
Robert Duvall
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 two worlds.
Robert Duvall
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 way up on a hill, way, way back in the country.
Robert Duvall
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 accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.
Robert Duvall
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.
Robert Duvall