Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Robert Duvall
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 5
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
San Diego
California
Robert Selden Duvall
Obviously
Actor
Whatever
Actors
Part
Come
Play
Murderer
Dictator
More quotes by Robert Duvall
I try not to look for messages in films.
Robert Duvall
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.
Robert Duvall
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
Around my own friends, I like to mess around.
Robert Duvall
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.
Robert Duvall
Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.
Robert Duvall
When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.
Robert Duvall
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.
Robert Duvall
I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, Godfather I and Godfather II, and Lonesome Dove.
Robert Duvall
Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
Robert Duvall
God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.
Robert Duvall
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.
Robert Duvall
You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.
Robert Duvall
Everybody likes to win.
Robert Duvall
My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.
Robert Duvall
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.
Robert Duvall
There's no right or wrong just truthful or untruthful.
Robert Duvall
You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.
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.
Robert Duvall
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.
Robert Duvall
