Robert Duvall Quotes

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

    Jobs   Hobbies   Actors  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • It suits him because way back many years ago when Nikita Mikhalkov, the great Russian director, came, I said, "I want you to meet somebody." So I get Billy Bob from Malvern, Arkansas and Nikita Mikhalkov from Moscow. It's just two big talents meet. We sat for two or three hours and talked. It was great. He's the real deal, this guy.

    Real   Years   Two  
    The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2014.
  • We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.

    People   Tears   Weakness  
  • Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.'

    Men   Directors   Hey  
  • One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

    Travel   Argentina   Salt  
  • If I ended my career, I wouldn't mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn't have to remember lines every week.

    Careers   Mind   Lines  
    "Robert Duvall’s talks about his faith-themed film “Seven Days in Utopia” - and why he’s not into “message movies”". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. December, 2012.
  • When you dance tango fast, you have to think slow.

    Thinking   Tango  
    "Robert Duvall: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 14, 2010.
  • I try not to look for messages in films.

    Trying   Looks   Messages  
  • When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad.

    Racing   Gears   Littles  
  • 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.

    "HuffPost Interview: Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek, Get Low". Interview with Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2010.
  • 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, Still Living 'In The Potential'". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris and Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. June 1, 2010.
  • The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.

    New York   Special   Used  
    "HuffPost Interview: Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek, Get Low". Interview with Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2010.
  • 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.

    Father   Virginia   Play  
  • 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!

  • 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.

  • To me, real comedy comes out of behavior. It's the choices you make as an actor. It's never about, "I want to do a comedy script." I can't think of it that way. And besides, some of those movies, those comedy movies, I can't even watch them.

    Real   Thinking   Choices  
    "If You Hire Robert Duvall Not to Flinch, He Damn Well Won't Flinch". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. May 16, 2014.
  • The tango is a very interior dance. It's not an exterior - it's not flashy and all over the floor. It's a very interior dance when you see the old guys dance in the clubs. I learned everything from the old guys in the clubs.

    Guy   Clubs   Tango  
    "If You Hire Robert Duvall Not to Flinch, He Damn Well Won't Flinch". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. May 16, 2014.
  • Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

    Offering   Long   Fit  
  • What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

    Texas   Cities   People  
  • I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.

    Thinking   Actors   Want  
  • Well, it's like my movie, 'The Apostle.' Some people in the North don't get that movie. They think that, in the South, if you don't shout, you can't play one of those guys.

    Thinking   Play   People  
    "HuffPost Interview: Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek, Get Low". Interview with Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2010.
  • If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.

    Hero   Grows   Ifs  
  • 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.

    Horse   Mean   Night  
    "Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek Interview GET LOW". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 30, 2010.
  • I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.

    People   Legacy   Want  
  • Everybody likes to win.

    Winning   Likes  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • 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 and Sissy Spacek Interview GET LOW". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 30, 2010.
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