Quotes By Robert Duvall

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!

I like the good feeling movies.

Art is competitive.

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

There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Well, I had a wonderful career.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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'm better than Olivier.

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.

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.

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.