Robert Duvall Quotes

• The English have Shakespeare, the Russians have Chekhov, the French Moliere but we have the western.

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• 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.

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

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

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  Tags in Actor, Star

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

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  Tags in Lives, Holy

• Around my own friends, I like to mess around.

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  Tags in Friends, Around, Mess

• High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

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  Tags in Pretty, High, Movie

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

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  Tags in Bad, End, Still

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

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  Tags in Myself, Thought, Later

• 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.

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  Tags in Live, Back, Come

• 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.

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  Tags in Wanted, Show

• I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.

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  Tags in Morning, Smell, Juices

• 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!

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  Tags in Lost, Different, Keep

• 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.

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  Tags in Day, Mind, Little

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

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

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  Tags in Little, Big, Sometimes

• 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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  Topics in America

  Tags in Come, Different

• 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.

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  Topics in God

  Tags in Through, Between

• 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.

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  Topics in Father

  Tags in Play, Line

• 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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  Tags in Sleep, Greatest, Wife

Robert Duvall (34)

Birth:	5th January, 1931
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director

About

Robert Selden Duvall is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and a BAFTA over the course of his career.

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