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" 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. "

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Live

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Robert Duvall

Love

I Love

" Art is competitive. "

Robert Duvall

Art

Competitive

" Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review. "

" 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. "

" 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

Action

Challenge

" 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

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

Robert Duvall

Good People

Bible

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I like to do things that I develop from the ground up. "

Robert Duvall

Things

" 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. "

" 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! "

" There was nothing wrong with shouting at God. "

" You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Robert Duvall

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Crime

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

" I love working in Texas anywhere. "

" I'm better than Olivier. "

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Than

Better

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