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" What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it. "
Robert Duvall
Love
Me
I Love
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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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" A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies. "
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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 you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four months, and that got me ready for that. "
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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. "
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New York
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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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" You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play. "
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" High Noon is a pretty corny movie. "
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" If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow. "
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You
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" 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. "
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Horse
Good
" 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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" 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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Dress
Know
Game
" You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie. "
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Take
Tango
" Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne. "
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Wonderful
John Wayne
Easy
" 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
" One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it. "
Robert Duvall
Only
About
Argentina
" 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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Great
Play
Just
" 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. "
Robert Duvall
Well
Pretty
Keep Going
" 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? "
Robert Duvall
Look
Think
Culture
" 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. "
Robert Duvall
World
You
Hollywood
" Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking. "
Robert Duvall
End
Beginning
Good
" 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. "
Robert Duvall
Always
America
Come
" 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. "
Robert Duvall
Good
My Life
Unique
" 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
" 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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Good
Special
Today
" 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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Say
Hope
Want
" God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost. "
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Holy
Them
Guide
" 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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Aim
Talk
People
" 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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Way
Keep Going
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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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Contrast