Robert Duvall quotes

Born
January 5, 1931, San Diego, California, U.S.

Occupation
Actor.

Robert Duvall is an American actor, whose career spans more than six decades.

Movies
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Colors (1988)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Widows (2018)

Well, I had a wonderful career.
– Robert Duvall

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.
– Robert Duvall

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

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn’t the beginning or end for filmmaking.
– Robert Duvall

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can’t predict.
– Robert Duvall

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it’s so rich.
– Robert Duvall

Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can’t wait that long.
– Robert Duvall

Around my own friends, I like to mess around.
– Robert Duvall

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

When I’m at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.
– Robert Duvall

It’s no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.
– Robert Duvall

We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.
– Robert Duvall

Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.
– Robert Duvall

Cows is one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else.
– Robert Duvall

I had a wonderful career.
– Robert Duvall

My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.
– Robert Duvall

You just can’t take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.
– Robert Duvall

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

To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.
– Robert Duvall

I’d like to direct again, but that’s really hard to get something and raise the money. It’s difficult to find just the right thing.
– Robert Duvall

Being a star is an agent’s dream, not an actor’s.
– Robert Duvall

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.
– Robert Duvall

Never use money to measure wealth, son.
– Robert Duvall

When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.
– Robert Duvall

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.
– Robert Duvall

You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.
– Robert Duvall

Well, I can’t live without a woman. I have to have a woman, have to have a wife.
– Robert Duvall

The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn’t been for him, I don’t know where we would have gotten the money.
– Robert Duvall

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.
– Robert Duvall

Although it wasn’t that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.
– Robert Duvall

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

I love working in Texas anywhere.
– Robert Duvall

Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you’re in the Army is like reading a bad review.
– Robert Duvall

Way, way, way back I played a little bit, but I am definitely not a golfer. You know, it just takes too much time anyway during the course of the day.
– Robert Duvall

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.
– Robert Duvall

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that’s it.
– Robert Duvall

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

I like to do things that I develop from the ground up.
– Robert Duvall

High Noon is a pretty corny movie.
– Robert Duvall

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

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

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.
– Robert Duvall

Spending two years on my uncle’s ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
– Robert Duvall

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there’s always room for good films.
– Robert Duvall

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.
– Robert Duvall