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

Robert Duvall

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Robert Duvall
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 5
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You obviously don't have to be a murderer to play a murderer or you don't have to be a dictator to play a dictator. So, you're an actor. You come up with whatever you come up with to play that part.
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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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Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.'
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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!
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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.
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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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There's no right or wrong just truthful or untruthful.
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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.
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I like the smell of toast. Coffee is okay, but I don't drink much coffee. But toast is a nice smell. You smell some toast coming from your kitchen in the morning, you know that you're involved in a domestic situation and the operation that's going on is pleasant.
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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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I try not to look for messages in films.
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You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.
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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 you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.
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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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Cows is one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else.
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Everybody likes to win.
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When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.
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I take a vitamin every day it's called a steak.
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Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four months, and that got me ready for that.
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