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" 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! "

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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. "

Robert Duvall

People

Great

Know

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

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

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

" I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns. "

" I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier. "

Robert Duvall

Work

Always

" There was nothing wrong with shouting at God. "

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

" Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review. "

" 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. "

Robert Duvall

Sometimes

Day

" Everybody likes to win. "

" 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. "

" You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie. "

" I am getting some good offers still. Some nice things are coming my way just as they always have, so unless I lose my inspiration or there is too much drool to wipe, I will keep going. "

" I like the good feeling movies. "

Robert Duvall

Good

Movies

" 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. "

" My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general. "

" 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. "

" My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher. "

" A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies. "

Robert Duvall

You

Young

" High Noon is a pretty corny movie. "

" Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think? "

" I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character. "

" 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. "

" Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long. "

" 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. "

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