Quotes By Robert Duvall

Art is competitive.

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.

Well, I had a wonderful career.

Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I'm better than Olivier.

When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.