Robert Duvall Quotes
"Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: Wisdom, Man, Montana, Years)
"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 to God directly."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: God, Contrast, Saints)
"My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher."
- Robert Duvall
"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."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: Wife, Battle, Israel, Man, Sleep)
"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
(Related: Money)
"There was nothing wrong with shouting at God."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: God, Nothing, Wrong)
"Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: People, Economics, University)
"We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: Journey)
"We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: People, Bible)
"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
(Related: Music, Culture, Literature)
"You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: Feeling, Play)
"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."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: People, Culture, Entertainment, Fiction, Film, Right, Want)
"Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: Committee, Today)
"You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie."
- Robert Duvall
"God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: God)
"Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: Religious, Television)
"Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: Dream, Actor, Being)
"High Noon is a pretty corny movie."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: Pretty)
"Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: Beginning, End, Hollywood)
"I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: Work, Thought)
"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
(Related: People, Country)
"Around my own friends, I like to mess around."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: Friends)
"I like to do things that I develop from the ground up."
- 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
(Related: People, America)
"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
(Related: Father, People, Play)
"Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne."
- Robert Duvall
"It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes."
- Robert Duvall
"I'm better than Olivier."
- Robert Duvall
"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 my enthusiasm yet!"
- Robert Duvall
(Related: Business, Enthusiasm, Acting)
"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."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: Work, Day, Mind)
"I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: Crime, Punishment)
"I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: Love)