Quotes By Robert Duvall

I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.

High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

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

I'd like to direct again, but that's really hard to get something and raise the money. It's difficult to find just the right thing.

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.

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 someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.

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

I love working in Texas anywhere.

Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.

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.

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.

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.

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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