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" Well, I can't live without a woman. I have to have a woman, have to have a wife. "
Robert Duvall
Woman
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" You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play. "
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" Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns. "
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" I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict. "
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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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" 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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" God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost. "
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" Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking. "
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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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" 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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" High Noon is a pretty corny movie. "
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" 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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" There was nothing wrong with shouting at God. "
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Shouting
" 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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You
Think
" 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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Journey
My Journey
Positive
" We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible. "
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Good People
Accept
Bible
" 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! "
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Lost
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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. "
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Got
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" Around my own friends, I like to mess around. "
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Around
" But 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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Young
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" Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long. "
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Economics
Wait
Think
" 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. "
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Living
New York
Live
" I'm better than Olivier. "
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Than
Better
" 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. "
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Influence
Country
Back
" Everybody likes to win. "
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Everybody
" 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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You
" Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films. "
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" 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. "
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" One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it. "
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About
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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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