Top 80 Robert Duvall Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth – there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well – I’ll keep going for a while.”

— Robert Duvall

52. “I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, ‘Godfather I’ and ‘Godfather II,’ and ‘Lonesome Dove.’”

— Robert Duvall

53. “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

54. “I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It’s a medium that everyone wants to be connected with – it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.”

— Robert Duvall

55. “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.’”

— Robert Duvall

56. “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.”

— Robert Duvall

57. “The tango is a very interior dance. It’s not an exterior – it’s not flashy and all over the floor. It’s a very interior dance when you see the old guys dance in the clubs. I learned everything from the old guys in the clubs.”

— Robert Duvall

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

— Robert Duvall

59. “I’m a man without a corporation.”

— Robert Duvall

60. “Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.”

— Robert Duvall

61. “Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn’t the beginning or end for filmmaking.”

— Robert Duvall

62. “Some Russian ballet master woman said there’s no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don’t you think?”

— Robert Duvall

63. “I like the good feeling movies.”

— Robert Duvall

64. “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.”

— Robert Duvall

65. “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.”

— Robert Duvall

66. “You just can’t take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.”

— Robert Duvall

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

— Robert Duvall

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

— Robert Duvall

69. “I’ve always liked country music. It’s a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.”

— Robert Duvall

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

— Robert Duvall

71. “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

72. “Although it wasn’t that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.”

— Robert Duvall

73. “I try not to look for messages in films.”

— Robert Duvall

74. “I love working in Texas anywhere.”

— Robert Duvall

75. “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

76. “I’ll keep on acting ’til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven’t lost my enthusiasm yet!”

— Robert Duvall

77. “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.”

— Robert Duvall

78. “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

79. “Look, Hollywood’s a mecca, but it’s not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.”

— Robert Duvall

80. “To me, real comedy comes out of behavior. It’s the choices you make as an actor. It’s never about, “I want to do a comedy script.” I can’t think of it that way. And besides, some of those movies, those comedy movies, I can’t even watch them.”

— Robert Duvall

81. “If I ended my career, I wouldn’t mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn’t have to remember lines every week.”

— Robert Duvall

82. “If you don’t have heroes in the beginning, you don’t grow.”

— Robert Duvall

83. “I’m getting good offers, as good as ever sometimes. I just finished a thing with Billy Bob Thornton that was the most unique part I’ve ever played in my life, in the most unique project.”

— Robert Duvall

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

— Robert Duvall

85. “Around my own friends, I like to mess around.”

— Robert Duvall

86. “Way, way, way back I played a little bit, but I am definitely not a golfer. You know, it just takes too much time anyway during the course of the day.”

— Robert Duvall

87. “You obviously don’t have to be a murderer to play a murderer or you don’t have to be a dictator to play a dictator. So, you’re an actor. You come up with whatever you come up with to play that part.”

— Robert Duvall