61+ Robert Duvall Quotes (Dedicated, Versatile And Iconic)

Robert Duvall is an American actor, producer, and director. He has been nominated for seven Academy Awards and won an Oscar for his performance in Tender Mercies. He is also known for his roles in The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, and Lonesome Dove.

Top 10 Robert Duvall Quotes

1. Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.
2. I take a vitamin every day; it's called a steak.
3. 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.
4. Smell that? You smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
5. Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.
6. If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.
7. The beginning and the end of the tango is the walk.
8. You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.
9. 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.
10. 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 Short Quotes

• To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.
• God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.
• High Noon is a pretty corny movie.
• When you dance tango fast, you have to think slow.
• There's no smoking section in heaven.
• Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.
• I like the good feeling movies.
• I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.
• My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.
• It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.

Robert Duvall Famous Quotes And Sayings

The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's not necessarily true. I try to stay loose but sometimes the best thing to do is get yourself away and take a good nap. — Robert Duvall

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

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

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

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. — Robert Duvall

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. — 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

When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad. — Robert Duvall

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. — 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

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

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

It suits him because way back many years ago when Nikita Mikhalkov, the great Russian director, came, I said, "I want you to meet somebody." So I get Billy Bob from Malvern, Arkansas and Nikita Mikhalkov from Moscow. It's just two big talents meet. We sat for two or three hours and talked. It was great. He's the real deal, this guy. — Robert Duvall

The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have gotten the money. — 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

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

If you piss your pants, you can only stay warm for so long. — Robert Duvall

The only thing that might make me stay in bed would be fear. Once I get rest, then I can overcome the fear of a given day and then I'm ready. I'm ready to go. Not that I always have that fear, but sometimes that's the only thing that would keep me in bed more than just the laziness. — Robert Duvall

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

Around my own friends, I like to mess around. — Robert Duvall

Never use money to measure wealth, son. — Robert Duvall

We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities. — Robert Duvall

There was nothing wrong with shouting at God. — Robert Duvall

I like the smell of toast. Coffee is okay, but I don't drink much coffee. But toast is a nice smell. You smell some toast coming from your kitchen in the morning, you know that you're involved in a domestic situation and the operation that's going on is pleasant. — Robert Duvall

Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon. — Robert Duvall

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

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

Cows is one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else. — Robert Duvall

You gotta be careful with message movies. People say "What do you want people to take away from it?" I always say its totally individual. — Robert Duvall

There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding. — Robert Duvall

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

Everybody likes to win. — Robert Duvall

The one you fight with the most is always the one who’s most like you. — 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

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

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

I would like to ask each of you: Would you be in favor of some kind of education on birth control and if so, how would you use that as a possible solution to the ever present question of abortion. — Robert Duvall

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

I'm a man without a corporation. — Robert Duvall

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

Life Lessons by Robert Duvall

1. Robert Duvall is a great example of hard work and dedication to one's craft, having worked on over one hundred films and television shows throughout his career.
2. He has also demonstrated that it is possible to remain successful and relevant in the entertainment industry for many decades.
3. His ability to take on a variety of roles and to remain humble and passionate about his work is an inspiring lesson for any aspiring actor.