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" 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

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" Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne. "

" 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'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! "

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

" I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential. "

" 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. "

" Art is competitive. "

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Art

Competitive

" We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible. "

Robert Duvall

Good People

Bible

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" High Noon is a pretty corny movie. "

" I'm better than Olivier. "

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Than

Better

" 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. "

" God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost. "

" I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict. "

" There was nothing wrong with shouting at God. "

" 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. "

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

" Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking. "

" 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. "

" I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience. "

" 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. "

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

" I had a wonderful career. "

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

" 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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Action

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" I love working in Texas anywhere. "