Robert Duvall quotes

Robert Duvall is an acclaimed American actor renowned for his versatility and powerful performances in film and television. His career spans over six decades and includes iconic roles in movies such as "The Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now." He has received numerous awards, including an Academy Award for Best Actor. Here are 69 of his quotes:

I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.

Robert Duvall

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

Robert Duvall

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

Robert Duvall

You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.

Robert Duvall

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

Robert Duvall

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

Robert Duvall

To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.

Robert Duvall

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

Robert Duvall

There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

Robert Duvall

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

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.

Robert Duvall

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

Robert Duvall

I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country.

Robert Duvall

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

Robert Duvall

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

Robert Duvall

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

Robert Duvall

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

Robert Duvall

My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.

Robert Duvall

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.

Robert Duvall

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.

Robert Duvall

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

Robert Duvall

High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

Robert Duvall