Robert Duvall
Robert Duvall
Robert Selden Duvall is an American actor and director. He has been nominated for seven Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes, and has multiple nominations and one win each of the BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Emmy Award. He received the National Medal of Arts in 2005. He has starred in some of the most acclaimed and popular films and television series of all time, including To Kill a Mockingbird, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Bullitt, True Grit, MASH,...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth5 January 1931
CitySan Diego, CA
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.
I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.
A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies.
I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.
You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.
Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.
Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.
Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.
At one point, they wanted me at the end wounded, and in a wheelchair and crutch like Anthony Hopkins in Legends of the Fall. I said I'm not doing that movie.
It's cheap and it's ranch country. I like the sight of the mountains.
This is something very near to my heart.
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.
Dean was talented, obviously, ... But he died at a good time.
I made a statement before that there were no good actors up here. I eat my words.