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Robert Duvall Biography

Robert Selden Duvall (/duːˈvɔːl/; born January 5, 1931) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has been nominated for seven Academy Awards (winning for his performance in Tender Mercies), seven Golden Globes (winning four), 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. Duvall has starred in numerous films and television series, including To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), The Twilight Zone (1963), The Outer Limits (1964), Bullitt (1968), True Grit (1969), MASH (1970), THX 1138 (1971), Joe Kidd (1972), The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), The Conversation (1974), Network (1976), Apocalypse Now (1979), The Great Santini (1979), Lonesome Dove (1989), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), Days of Thunder (1990), Rambling Rose (1991), and Falling Down (1993).

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Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.

Decide, Listening, Moon, Muhammad, Writing

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

Actor, Actors, Character, Human, Show, Trying

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

Love, Morning, Nothing, Smell, Son

When you dance tango fast, you have to think slow.

Dance, Fast, Slow, Tango, Think, Thinking

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.

Anyplace, Cameras, Finals, Hollywood, Look, Movie

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.

Away, Become, Ideas, Naps, Success, Thing

Never use money to measure wealth, son.

Measure, Money, Son, Use, Wealth

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.

Back, Country, Door, Doors, People

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.

Culture, Line, Race, Races, Rich, Two

The one you fight with the most is always the one who’s most like you.

Fight, Fighting, Like, Like You, Whos

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

Films, Room, Rooms, Special, Today

But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds.

Action, Behavior, Challenges, Character, Says, Two

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.

Careers, Lines, Mind, Mute, Week

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

Men, Montana, Spending, Two, Uncles, Years

Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.

Actors, Dream, Star, Stars

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.

Fit, Forth, Long, Offering, Pretty

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.

Figure, Individual, Journey, Toes

When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad.

Bad, Gears, Littles, Needle, Racing, Shift

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

Argentina, Cook, Salt, Thing, Travel

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.

Clubs, Guy, Guys, Interior, Tango

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