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" 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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" 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

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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! "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Everybody likes to win. "

" If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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'm better than Olivier. "

Robert Duvall

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

" 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. "

" I love working in Texas anywhere. "

" 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. "

" There was nothing wrong with shouting at God. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it. "

Robert Duvall

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "