Quotes By Robert Duvall

High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.

I like to do things that I develop from the ground up.

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 during the course of the day.

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

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. It's a game - acting's a game.

I love working in Texas anywhere.

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, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.'

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.

A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies.

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 with his wife.

Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.

Around my own friends, I like to mess around.

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

I like the good feeling movies.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

Art is competitive.

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 think?

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.

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 ever played in my life, in the most unique project.

If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.

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.

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 common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.

When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

But 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 a hip medium going into the 21st century.