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" 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
Last
Dove
Two
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" 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? "
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" 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. "
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" I like to do things that I develop from the ground up. "
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" Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne. "
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" I had a wonderful career. "
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" Well, I can't live without a woman. I have to have a woman, have to have a wife. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's. "
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" 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. "
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" I try not to look for messages in films. "
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" 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. "
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Keep Going
I Am
" 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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Country
Back
" I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier. "
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Always
" You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play. "
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Everyone
You
Feeling
" 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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" 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. "
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Wood
You
" 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.' "
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" 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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" When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything. "
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" I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning. "
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" 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. "
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Special
Today