A biography for Robert Duvallhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.”
“Some people say, 'Do you have any theories on acting?' And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero and end with zero. You don't have to go anywhere, you don't have to go for the result.”
“Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.”
“My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.”
“Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.”
“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.”
“I like the good feeling movies.”
“I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.”
“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.”
“It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.”
“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.”
“I like to do things that I develop from the ground up.”
“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.”