Explore Quotes by 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.

When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.

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

There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

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

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?

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

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

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

I try not to look for messages in films.

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

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

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

High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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