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" But 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. "

Robert Duvall

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Young

Think

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" I like the good feeling movies. "

Robert Duvall

Good

Movies

" I'm getting good offers, as good as ever sometimes. I just finished a thing with Billy Bob Thornton that was the most unique part I've ever played in my life, in the most unique project. "

" Around my own friends, I like to mess around. "

" 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.' "

Robert Duvall

Love

Man

" I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.' "

" But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds. "

Robert Duvall

Action

Challenge

" 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. "

" 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! "

" Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic. "

" 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. "

" Well, I can't live without a woman. I have to have a woman, have to have a wife. "

" It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes. "

" 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. "

" I can't live without a woman. I have to have a woman, have to have a wife. "

" I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment. "

Robert Duvall

Punishment

Crime

" 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

Acting

Lost

" High Noon is a pretty corny movie. "

" The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have gotten the money. "

" 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. "

" Art is competitive. "

Robert Duvall

Art

Competitive

" Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films. "

" To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part. "

" One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it. "

" 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. "

" When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home. "

" I'd like to direct again, but that's really hard to get something and raise the money. It's difficult to find just the right thing. "

" 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. "

" The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there. "

" 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. "

" I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning. "