Robert Duvall Quotes

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Robert Duvall

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 5, 1931

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

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

Robert Duvall

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

Robert Duvall

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

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

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

Robert Duvall

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

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

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

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

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

Robert Duvall

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

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

Robert Duvall

God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.

Robert Duvall

Around my own friends, I like to mess around.

Robert Duvall

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

Robert Duvall

I'm better than Olivier.

Robert Duvall

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

Everybody likes to win.

Robert Duvall

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.

Robert Duvall