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" 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. "
Robert Duvall
Mind
Horse
Good
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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. "
Robert Duvall
Yourself
Wood
You
" What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it. "
Robert Duvall
Love
Me
I Love
" Everybody likes to win. "
Robert Duvall
Win
Likes
Everybody
" 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. "
Robert Duvall
Good
My Life
Unique
" 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. "
Robert Duvall
Rich
Line
Music
" 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. "
Robert Duvall
Way
Keep Going
I Am
" There was nothing wrong with shouting at God. "
Robert Duvall
Nothing
Wrong
Shouting
" Some people say, 'Do you have any theories on acting?' And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero and end with zero. You don't have to go anywhere, you don't have to go for the result. "
Robert Duvall
Think
You
Acting
" 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. "
Robert Duvall
Possible
You
Want
" Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic. "
Robert Duvall
You
Find
See
" It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre. "
Robert Duvall
Always
America
Come
" 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
Texas
New York
Great
" 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. "
Robert Duvall
You
Hollywood
Look
" 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. "
Robert Duvall
Religions
Say
Contrast
" 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. "
Robert Duvall
Aim
Talk
People
" 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
Me
Action
Challenge
" Around my own friends, I like to mess around. "
Robert Duvall
Own
My Own
Around
" 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
" I try not to look for messages in films. "
Robert Duvall
Look
Messages
Try
" 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. "
Robert Duvall
Well
Pretty
Keep Going
" I like the good feeling movies. "
Robert Duvall
Good
Movies
Like
" I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier. "
Robert Duvall
Work
More
Always
" 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. "
Robert Duvall
Dress
Know
Game
" I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience. "
Robert Duvall
Try
Experience
Show
" 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
" Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking. "
Robert Duvall
End
Beginning
Good
" I can't live without a woman. I have to have a woman, have to have a wife. "
Robert Duvall
Without
Wife
Live
" I love working in Texas anywhere. "
Robert Duvall
Anywhere
I Love
Texas
" 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. "
Robert Duvall
Said
Always
Difficult
" 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. "
Robert Duvall
Play
You
Think