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.”

“I like the good feeling movies.”

“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.”

“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!”

“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.”

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

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

“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 wha...”

“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...”

“Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.”

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

“Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.”

“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.”

“My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.”

“There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.”

“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.”

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

“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...”

“You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.”

“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.”