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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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Robert Selden Duvall
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There's no right or wrong just truthful or untruthful.
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Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.
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Way, way, way back I played a little bit, but I am definitely not a golfer. You know, it just takes too much time anyway during the course of the day.
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When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.
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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 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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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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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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