Robert Duvall Quotes

• My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.

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• Spending two years on my uncle’s ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

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• I’m better than Olivier.

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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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• There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

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

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

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• We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There’s got to be something hereafter.

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

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• You just can’t take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.

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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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• You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it’s so rich.

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Robert Duvall (34)

Birth:	5th January, 1931
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director

About

Robert Selden Duvall is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and a BAFTA over the course of his career.

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