Robert Duvall Quotes

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Robert Duvall

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 5, 1931

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

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.

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

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To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.

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There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

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

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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.

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

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Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.

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You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.

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

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

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We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.

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Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four months, and that got me ready for that.

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You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.

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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.

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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.

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

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High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

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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.

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