Quotes from Robert Duvall

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Never use money to measure wealth, son.

Smell that? You smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

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.

There's no smoking section in heaven.

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.

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

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

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.

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

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

I like the good feeling movies.

When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.

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

Art is competitive.