Top 78 Quotes by Robert Duvall

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

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

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

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

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 up there.

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.

Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.'

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.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

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