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

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

There was nothing wrong with shouting at God. — Robert Duvall

When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything. — Robert Duvall

I like the good feeling movies. — Robert Duvall

There's a lot of ignorance in our business ... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding. — Robert Duvall

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

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. — Robert Duvall

Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie. — 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

High Noon is a pretty corny movie. — Robert Duvall

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America. — Robert Duvall

I try not to look for messages in films. — Robert Duvall

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

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

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. — Robert Duvall

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace. — 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

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

I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.' — Robert Duvall

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

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

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

Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon. — Robert Duvall

A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies. — Robert Duvall

I can't live without a woman. I have to have a woman, have to have a wife. — Robert Duvall

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

When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad. — Robert Duvall

I love working in Texas anywhere. — Robert Duvall

Everybody else, they're wonderful, but [Robert] Duvall sets the tone for all of cinema acting. So just to be in his space was amazing. — Peter Jacobson

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 love the smell of juice boxes in the morning. — 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

You gotta be careful with message movies. People say "What do you want people to take away from it?" I always say its totally individual. — Robert Duvall

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. — Robert Duvall

Art is competitive. — Robert Duvall

I sat next to Robert Duvall at the lawyers' table for six weeks, and it's still probably the best six weeks of my life. — Peter Jacobson

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

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

When you dance tango fast, you have to think slow. — Robert Duvall

Cows is one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else. — Robert Duvall

I grew up watching Marlon Brando, Christopher Walken, Robert de Niro, and Al Pacino and even Robert Duvall and was impressed by their caliber of work. — Cole Hauser

I'm better than Olivier. — Robert Duvall

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

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

If you piss your pants, you can only stay warm for so long. — Robert Duvall

Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man. — Robert Duvall

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

Around my own friends, I like to mess around. — Robert Duvall

My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn. — Walton Goggins

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

What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it. — Robert Duvall

The one you fight with the most is always the one who's most like you. — Robert Duvall

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

There's no right or wrong just truthful or untruthful. — Robert Duvall

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

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

But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman. — Shelley 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

Never use money to measure wealth, son. — Robert Duvall

I take a vitamin every day; it's called a steak. — Robert Duvall

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. — Robert Duvall

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

You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. — Robert Duvall

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it. — Robert Duvall

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? — Robert Duvall

The beginning and the end of the tango is the walk. — Robert Duvall

We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities. — Robert Duvall

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. — Robert Duvall

Everybody likes to win. — Robert Duvall

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