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" You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible. "

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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. "

Robert Duvall

Religions

Say

Contrast

" God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost. "

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

" Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films. "

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

" Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking. "

" You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play. "

" Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Robert Duvall

Punishment

Crime

" Around my own friends, I like to mess around. "

" I try not to look for messages in films. "

" I'm better than Olivier. "

Robert Duvall

Than

Better

" I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier. "

Robert Duvall

Work

Always

" 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. "

" I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience. "

" When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything. "

" 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. "

" Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's. "

" Art is competitive. "

Robert Duvall

Art

Competitive

" 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. "

Robert Duvall

Sometimes

Day

" 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. "

Robert Duvall

Action

Challenge

" 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. "

" I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.' "

" 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. "

" What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it. "

Robert Duvall

Love

I Love

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

Robert Duvall

You

Young

" 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! "

" I love working in Texas anywhere. "

" 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. "