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Robert Duvall

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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.


— Robert Duvall


#dress #father #game #go #go home

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


#anyplace #camera #final #final answer #hollywood

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


#father #general #great #honour #just

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


— Robert Duvall


#been #could #i #rancher #said

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.


— Robert Duvall


#argentina #cook #i #like #one thing

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


— Robert Duvall


#bad #bad review #duty #guard #like

Some people say, 'Do you have any theories on acting?' And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero and end with zero. You don't have to go anywhere, you don't have to go for the result.


— Robert Duvall


#any #anywhere #end #go #i

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


#ballet #country #culture #find #interesting

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


#directors #hey #hire #hired #how

Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four months, and that got me ready for that.


— Robert Duvall


#day #did #dove #four #got






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Duvall founded a production company Butcher's Run Films. D. Director Bruce Beresford too said the transformation was so believable to him that he could feel his skin crawling up the back of his neck the first day of filming with Duvall.

A veteran actor Duvall has starred in some of the most acclaimed and popular films and TV shows of all time among them The Twilight Zone The Outer Limits To Kill a Mockingbird THX 1138 Joe Kidd The Godfather The Godfather Part II MASH Network The Apostle True Grit The Conversation Apocalypse Now Falling Down Tender Mercies The Natural and Lonesome Dove. Since then Duvall has continued to act in both film and television with such productions as Tender Mercies (1983) (for which he won an Academy Award) The Natural (1984) Colors (1988) the television mini-series Lonesome Dove (1989) Stalin (1992) The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996) A Family Thing (1996) The Apostle (1997) (which he also wrote and directed) A Civil Action (1998) Gods and Generals (2003) Broken Trail (2006) and Get Low (2010). He began appearing in theater during the late 1950s moving into television and film roles during the early 1960s in such works as To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) (as Boo Radley) and Captain Newman M.

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