Explore Quotes by 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.

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 can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

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

I love working in Texas anywhere.

It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.

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.

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

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

Around my own friends, I like to mess around.

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

I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.

When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad.

I'm a man without a corporation.

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

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.

Smell that? You smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

I take a vitamin every day; it's called a steak.

Never use money to measure wealth, son.

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

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