Robert Duvall Quotes

There's no smoking section in heaven.

When you dance tango fast, you have to think slow.

Look, 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.

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

Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.

I'm getting good offers, as good as ever sometimes. I just finished a thing with Billy Bob Thornton that was the most unique part I've ever played in my life, in the most unique project.

I would like to ask each of you: Would you be in favor of some kind of education on birth control and if so, how would you use that as a possible solution to the ever present question of abortion.

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.

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

I like the good feeling movies.

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.

I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher!

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.

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.

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

Around my own friends, I like to mess around.

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.

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

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

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

I try not to look for messages in films.

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.

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

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.

I'm a man without a corporation.

Everybody likes to win.

I am getting some good offers still. Some nice things are coming my way just as they always have, so unless I lose my inspiration or there is too much drool to wipe, I will keep going.

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.

You obviously don't have to be a murderer to play a murderer or you don't have to be a dictator to play a dictator. So, you're an actor. You come up with whatever you come up with to play that part.

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

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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