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" The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there. "

Robert Duvall

Living

New York

Live

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Challenge

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

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You

Young

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Than

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" Well, I had a wonderful career. "

" 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 love working in Texas anywhere. "

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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. "

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

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" 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

" I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country. "