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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

#actor #always #chair #character #craft

Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#bad #bad review #duty #guard #like

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

#day #did #dove #four #got

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

#been #coppola #difficult #difficult things #gotten

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

#ever #felt #had #i #live

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

— Robert Duvall

#committee #effects #everything #films #good

Well, I had a wonderful career. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#had #i #well #wonderful

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

#gotta #head #keep #making #meaning

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

#because #begin #better #bob #business

When I'd finished, everybody said they wanted me for this movie. At first I thought they meant a nudie flick since an awful lot of nudies are made in Houston. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#everybody #finished #first #flick #houston