Robert Duvall Quotes

I love acting, every job is a dream job when you're an actor. I'd like to do eventually more film work and to collaborate with the best actors and directors in film.

It doesn't matter if you're doing a studio movie or you're doing an independent movie. When you get to set and you're doing a scene, it's always going to be the same job. I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what this does for me.

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I've also been lucky to always be involved with quality actors, quality directors, quality writers.

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.

Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.

Getting to work with good filmmakers and getting to play good characters in films is so special.

Not that I'm in the stage of my career where they're offering me parts in 'The Revenant,' but I try very hard to go through the audition process because I feel like I learn quite a lot about the character and the people I'm going to work with.

It took me a while to figure out what kind of work I needed to do. I worked with directors like Aparna Sen and Rituparno Ghosh. I wanted to do interesting roles.

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.

As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead End' had a great story; 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in.

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

I play mostly bad guys on TV and mostly good guys in movies.

I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'.

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

At this point, I'm happy to be part of something special. As an actor I liked to choose scripts that I'm passionate about.

I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role.

I would be an actress for the rest of my life just because it's really relaxing. Writing is hard work, and stand-up is so stressful before you get on stage, but acting is a complete ensemble experience.

As an actor, you don't have control over what you do, whom you work with.

I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters.

It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.

In Korea, I do different kinds of genres. So, like that, I would like to do a lot of good acting films.

Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.