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" 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. "
Robert Duvall
Journey
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" 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. "
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" I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning. "
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" It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre. "
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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. "
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" I had a wonderful career. "
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" To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part. "
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" 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. "
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" I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" There was nothing wrong with shouting at God. "
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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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" A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies. "
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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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" 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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" High Noon is a pretty corny movie. "
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" Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think? "
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" I'm better than Olivier. "
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" 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. "
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" I like the good feeling movies. "
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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! "
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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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" Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic. "
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