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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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" 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. "

Robert Duvall

Young

Good

Connected

" I had a wonderful career. "

" 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! "

" I try not to look for messages in films. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Robert Duvall

Work

Always

" Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's. "

" 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. "

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

" 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! "

Robert Duvall

Acting

Lost

" 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 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. "

" 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 working in Texas anywhere. "

" 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. "

" Well, I had a wonderful career. "

" I'd like to direct again, but that's really hard to get something and raise the money. It's difficult to find just the right thing. "

" 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. "

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

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

Robert Duvall

Love

I Love

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic. "

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

Robert Duvall

Good People

Bible

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

Robert Duvall

You

Young

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