Quotes By Robert Duvall

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.

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

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!

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

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

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.

To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.

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.

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

We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.

I like the good feeling movies.

I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.'

Art is competitive.

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

There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.

Well, I had a wonderful career.

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.

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.

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

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.

When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.

But 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 better than Olivier.

When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.

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.

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 love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.

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.