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" I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict. "
Robert Duvall
Say
Hope
Want
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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'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. "
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" Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films. "
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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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" Well, I had a wonderful career. "
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" You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible. "
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" Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns. "
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Young Man
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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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" 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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Young
Good
Connected
" 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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Dress
Know
Game
" 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. "
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Me
Action
Challenge
" Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic. "
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You
Find
See
" It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes. "
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You
Big
Little Things
" 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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You
Hollywood
Look
" I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier. "
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Work
More
Always
" I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.' "
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Last
Dove
Two
" The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly. "
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Religions
Say
Contrast
" My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher. "
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Been
Could
Said
" If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow. "
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Grow
You
Heroes
" 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. "
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Mind
Horse
Good
" I love working in Texas anywhere. "
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Anywhere
I Love
Texas
" I like to do things that I develop from the ground up. "
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Things
Like
Up
" Well, it's like my movie, 'The Apostle.' Some people in the North don't get that movie. They think that, in the South, if you don't shout, you can't play one of those guys. "
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You
Think
" 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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Wife
Die
Battle
" You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie. "
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Tango
" 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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Influence
Country
Back
" 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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Time
You
Too Much
" 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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Rich
Line
Music
" What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it. "
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Me
I Love