Robert Duvall Quotes
Top 66 wise famous quotes and sayings by Robert Duvall
Robert Duvall Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
There's a lot of ignorance in our business ... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding.
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.
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.
Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.
A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies.
Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.
I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.
When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad.
Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.
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.
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.
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.
Cows is one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else.
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.
I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.
I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.'
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.
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.
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.
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?
We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.