Top 78 Quotes by Robert Duvall

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

You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.

It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.

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

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.