Top 78 Quotes by Robert Duvall

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.'

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

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

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

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

High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.

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!

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.

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.