Top 100 Duvall Quotes
#1. But define 'completely ridiculous shit,'" Duvall said. "Does space travel count? Contact with alien races? Does quantum physics count? Because I don't understand that crap at all. As far as I'm concerned, quantum physics could have been written by a hack.
John Scalzi
#2. I always wanted to be Gene Hackman and I always wanted to be, you know ... I wanted to be one of these guys. I always wanted to be Bob Duvall.
John C. McGinley
#3. The last cell in the row, whispering a prayer beneath her breath, a prisoner spat, the small splat landing just beside Katie's sneaker. In the exercise yard, Duvall grew chatty. Haven't seen you around. You been
Jodi Picoult
#4. It's fairly easy to break hearts, Miss Duvall. The more interesting challenge is how to keep someone's love, not to lose it.
Lisa Kleypas
#5. I offer you a second way of approaching the moment where everything in your life just stops, this one from the actor Robert Duvall: "I exist very nicely between the words 'action' and 'cut.'"
And even a third way: "It doesn't present as pain," I once heard an oncological surgeon say of cancer.
Joan Didion
#6. There aren't a lot of humans who speak more than one dialect of Forshan. I know all four of the major ones.'
'Impressive,' Duvall Said.
'I'm good with my tongue,' Dahl said.
'Now who's being forward?' Duvall asked.
John Scalzi
#7. When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them - watching 'On the Waterfront,' my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando.
Eddie Marsan
#8. She [Madame Duvall] seems desirious to repair the wrongs she has done, yet wishes the world to believe her blameless.
Fanny Burney
#9. But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go from there. I don't remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it.
Robert Towne
#10. I sat next to Robert Duvall at the lawyers' table for six weeks, and it's still probably the best six weeks of my life.
Peter Jacobson
#11. Everybody else, they're wonderful, but [Robert] Duvall sets the tone for all of cinema acting. So just to be in his space was amazing.
Peter Jacobson
#12. Shelley Duvall as Wendy is really one of the most misogynistic characters ever put on film, she's basically just there to scream and be stupid and that's not the woman that I wrote about.
Stephen King
#13. I have drinks," Hanson said, coming up behind Duvall. "Why, Jimmy," Duvall said. "That makes you my new favorite person.
John Scalzi
#14. There are two women inside Miss Duvall," he said stonily. "There's the one you find in that book, experienced, jaded, greedy... a perverse bitch. And then there's the one who is currently residing in my house."
"And what is she like?"
"Intelligent... sweet... gentle. Most men's fantasy.
Lisa Kleypas
#15. grinned again when he got a load of Agent Duvall's rack. Talk
Julie Ann Walker
#16. Robert Duvall saw me playing at a restaurant in Louisiana and invited me to be an extra in his movie 'The Apostle.' He gave me a guitar for my sixth birthday, and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.
Hunter Hayes
#17. My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.
Walton Goggins
#18. I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can't identify the face. I don't have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott.
John Malkovich
#19. I grew up watching Marlon Brando, Christopher Walken, Robert de Niro, and Al Pacino and even Robert Duvall and was impressed by their caliber of work.
Cole Hauser
#20. Stanley Kubrick made Shelly Duvall go crazy during 'The Shining.' It's like one of the best performances ever. Maybe he shouldn't have gone that far, but I love that movie.
Jonah Hill
#21. I really love Robert Duvall, who I think is maybe the best American actor. I love Robert Duvall because the ability that he has to change and do the most amazing work.
William Forsythe
#22. I'm just a real loner kind of person, and yeah, kinda dark. But I'm happy. Not sad. I'm just shy and nervous.
Clea Duvall
#23. I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.
Robert Duvall
#24. 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
#25. Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.
Shelley Duvall
#26. If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.
Robert Duvall
#27. There's no right or wrong just truthful or untruthful.
Robert Duvall
#28. 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
#30. Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.
Robert Duvall
#31. It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.
Robert Duvall
#32. Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.
Shelley Duvall
#33. Well, it's like my movie, 'The Apostle.' Some people in the North don't get that movie. They think that, in the South, if you don't shout, you can't play one of those guys.
Robert Duvall
#34. We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.
Robert Duvall
#35. Damn it, we need some of those men left alive to - " "All you're getting are corpses. When you send the cleanup crew, send a fucking bus.
Dianne Duvall
#36. 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
#37. In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot.
Shelley Duvall
#39. Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.
Robert Duvall
#40. 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
#41. I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.
Robert Duvall
#42. Great. There goes our security deposit."
~ Sean
Dianne Duvall
#43. 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
#44. If you ever endanger her life again by pulling some stupid shit like that, I will rip your fucking arms off and beat you to death with them
Dianne Duvall
#45. No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project.
Shelley Duvall
#48. I was a loner in high school. I keep to myself, but I love life.
Clea Duvall
#49. I'd like to direct again, but that's really hard to get something and raise the money. It's difficult to find just the right thing.
Robert Duvall
#50. 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
#51. Beautiful, brave and possessed of violent tendencies. I like her.
Dianne Duvall
#53. I would never betray you," she responded automatically, then bit her lip.
He raised one eyebrow.
"Okay, other that boinking your enemy, I would never betray you," she qualified.
He huffed a laugh, "Boinking?"
"I believe that's one of Sheldon's terms.
Dianne Duvall
#54. You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.
Robert Duvall
#56. You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.
Robert Duvall
#57. One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.
Robert Duvall
#58. What did you think I would do? Ask her if I could braid her hair after we gave each other facials and painted our toenails?
Marcus
Dianne Duvall
#59. 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
#60. We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.
Shelley Duvall
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs.
Shelley Duvall
#64. 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
#65. Although the garment was beautifully designed and well made, the color, a dark velvet that captured the intense tones of a ripe plum or black cherries, would prove a jarring clash with her hair. She added ruefully, "Not with this carrot top. I'll look a fright.
Lisa Kleypas
#66. 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
#67. It was strange at times. We had to make out so much that we kind of got over it. It was really awkward.
Clea Duvall
#69. 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
#70. You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
Robert Duvall
#71. When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.
Robert Duvall
#72. Marcus directed his response to Zach. "Do you have something against shirts?" His eyes dropped to Zach's bare chest.
"Yes," Zach retorted.
Tracy laughed. "I can live with that."
"Me too," Sean's Second, Nichole, said with a smile.
Dianne Duvall
#73. 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
#74. Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.
Robert Duvall
#75. That pronouncement went over about as well as an all-vegan buffet at a Cattlemen's Association dinner.
Dianne Duvall
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.
Robert Duvall
#80. God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.
Robert Duvall
#81. For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows.
Shelley Duvall
#82. Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.
Robert Duvall
#84. 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
#85. Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.
Robert Duvall
#86. The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong.
Shelley Duvall
#87. A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies.
Robert Duvall
#88. 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
#89. You're apologizing? Seriously, what happened to you? Have you been taken over by a pod person?
Dianne Duvall
#90. Teachers didn't like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out.
Clea Duvall
#91. I did not need to see that ... I mean I really did not need to see that. Jenna, honey, grab one of my daggers and poke out both my eyes.
Dianne Duvall
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. Somewhere along the line, Bob said I'd better begin taking this business seriously, because, whether I liked it or not, I had a career.
Shelley Duvall
#95. 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
#96. Stand tall with dignity and do the next right thing.
Nikki Duvall
#97. 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
#98. Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning.
Shelley Duvall
#99. 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
#100. 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
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