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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.
Robert Duvall
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Robert Duvall
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 5
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San Diego
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Robert Selden Duvall
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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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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 just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.
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I try not to look for messages in films.
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There's no right or wrong just truthful or untruthful.
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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.
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You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.
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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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Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.
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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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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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Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.
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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.
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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.
Robert Duvall
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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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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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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What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.
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Around my own friends, I like to mess around.
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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!
Robert Duvall
