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
I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier. – Robert Duvall
I’ve always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it’s like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That’s the actor’s craft – using yourself to create a character. – Robert Duvall
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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! – Robert Duvall
We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible. – Robert Duvall
