Robert Duvall
16 quotes
Biography
"I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning."
"I don’t try to be a hard guy to work with … but I decide what I’m going to do with a character. I will take direction, but only if it kind of supplements what I want to do. If I have instincts that I feel are right, I don’t want anybody to tamper with them. I don’t like tamperers, and I don’t like hoverers."
"It was as if somehow Al Capone had become head of the United States."
"The Western is our genre in the United States of America. The English have Shakespeare, the French have Molière, the Russians have Chekhov, but we have the Western."
"Sometimes what comes around the corner is better for you than what you're planning to do anyway."
"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!"
"I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience."
"When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home."
"It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game."
"I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict."
"I like the good feeling movies."
"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."
"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."
"Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns."
"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."
"To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part."