Robert Duvall Quotes

• The English have Shakespeare, the Russians have Chekhov, the French Moliere but we have the western.

  Robert Duvall

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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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  Tags in Real, Making, Film

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

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  Tags in Movie, Dancer, Crash

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

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  Tags in Feeling, Little, Play

• 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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  Tags in Music, Best

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

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  Tags in Accept, Either, Bible

• 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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  Tags in Between, Journey

• 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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  Tags in Find, Often, Religious

• 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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  Tags in Long, Wait

• 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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  Tags in Today, Everything, Made

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

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  Tags in Day, Best

• There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

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  Tags in Nothing, Wrong

• The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn’t been for him, I don’t know where we would have gotten the money.

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• The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

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  Tags in Sleep, Greatest, Wife

• The cultural contrast I saw between religions… Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

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  Tags in Through, Between

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

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  Tags in Said, Uncle

• 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.

  Robert Duvall

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Play, Line

• It’s no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.

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  Tags in Little, Big, Sometimes

• 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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  Topics in America

  Tags in Come, Different

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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