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" 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
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" Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne. "
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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.' "
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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. "
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" I'm better than Olivier. "
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" Well, I can't live without a woman. I have to have a woman, have to have a wife. "
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" High Noon is a pretty corny movie. "
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" To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part. "
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" Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home. "
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" I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning. "
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" 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. "
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" What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it. "
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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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Religions
Say
Contrast
" 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. "
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Crime
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" I like the good feeling movies. "
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Movies
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" There was nothing wrong with shouting at God. "
Robert Duvall
Nothing
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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. "
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" I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier. "
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More
Always
" You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie. "
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Movie
Take
Tango
" God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost. "
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Them
Guide
" My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher. "
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" I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes. "
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" I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.' "
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" 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. "
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" I had a wonderful career. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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