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Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.
Robert Duvall
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I take a vitamin every day; it's called a steak.
Robert Duvall
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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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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.
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Smell that? You smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
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One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.
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Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.
Robert Duvall
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Never use money to measure wealth, son.
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If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.
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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.
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I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.
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We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.
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The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's not necessarily true. I try to stay loose but sometimes the best thing to do is get yourself away and take a good nap.
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The beginning and the end of the tango is the walk.
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When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.
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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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I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, "Godfather I" and "Godfather II," and "Lonesome Dove".
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There's no right or wrong just truthful or untruthful.
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You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.
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The one you fight with the most is always the one who’s most like you.
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You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.
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Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.
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The tango is a very interior dance. It's not an exterior - it's not flashy and all over the floor. It's a very interior dance when you see the old guys dance in the clubs. I learned everything from the old guys in the clubs.
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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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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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To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.
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If you piss your pants, you can only stay warm for so long.
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Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.
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If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.
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The only thing that might make me stay in bed would be fear. Once I get rest, then I can overcome the fear of a given day and then I'm ready. I'm ready to go. Not that I always have that fear, but sometimes that's the only thing that would keep me in bed more than just the laziness.
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I love working in Texas anywhere.
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There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.
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There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding.
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Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?
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God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.
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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!
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If I ended my career, I wouldn't mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn't have to remember lines every week.
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I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.
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Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.
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When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad.
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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.
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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.
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When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.
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I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day.
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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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I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.
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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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High Noon is a pretty corny movie.
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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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My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.
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