Robert Duvall

Actor

1931-01-05

Robert Duvall is an American actor known for The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, and Tender Mercies. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Tender Mercies.

Books by Robert Duvall

The Apostle
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Are lawyers really necessary?
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Quotes by Robert Duvall

I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.
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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.
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Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.
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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.
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Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.
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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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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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Some people say, 'Do you have any theories on acting?' And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero and end with zero. You don't have to go anywhere, you don't have to go for the result.
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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.
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Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.
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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.
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I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.
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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!
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When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.
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Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.
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We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.
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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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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.
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I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.
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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.
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