Robert Duvall quotes
- From the movie: Open Range
“- Boss Spearman: Sounds like you got it all worked out.
- Charley Waite: Except the part where we don't get killed.” - From the movie: The Great Santini
“- Lt. Col. 'Bull' Meechum: Atchley do you realize that several Marines were killed by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor while taking craps?
- Col. Virgil Hedgepath: No, sir.” - From the movie: Rambling Rose
“- Mother: What you don't understand is, it's positive energy on this planet. It's what we do with it that makes it negative.
- Daddy: Darlin', don't go off to the fourth dimension, alright?” - From the movie: Open Range
“- Boss Spearman: We come for justice, not vengeance. Now them is two different things.
- Charley Waite: Not today they ain't.” - From the TV Series: Lonesome Dove
“- Newt Dobbs: Gus, are you sure the Captain is my father?
- Augustus 'Gus' McCrae: Yep, he is.
- Newt Dobbs: He ain't never mentioned it.
- Augustus 'Gus' McCrae: Well, Woodrow ain't much of a mentioner.” - From the movie: Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
- From the movie: The Great Santini
“- Lt. Col. 'Bull' Meechum: There's those that has got 'em, Ben, and those that don't!
- Ben Meechum: What?
- Lt. Col. 'Bull' Meechum: Gonads, son! Big brass ones!” - From the movie: A Civil Action
- From the movie: The Paper
“- Bernie White: What about something fun? Don't we have anything fun today?
- Henry Hackett: Nazis marching in New Jersey.
- Lou: There you go.
- Bernie White: Nazis are a barrel of laughs.” - From the movie: The Paper
- From the movie: Apocalypse Now
“I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like [sniffing, pondering] victory. Someday this war's gonna end...”
- From the TV Series: Lonesome Dove
“[referring to the Hat Creek Cattle Company sign]
- Woodrow F. Call: And if that ain't bad enough you got all them Greek words on there, too.
- Augustus 'Gus' McCrae: I told you, Woodrow, a long time ago it ain't Greek, it's Latin.
- Woodrow F. Call: Well what does it say in Latin?
- Augustus 'Gus' McCrae: Well, it's a motto. It just says itself...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: A Civil Action
“- Jerome Facher: What's your take?
- Jan Schlichtmann: They'll see the truth.
- Jerome Facher: The truth? I thought we were talking about a court of law. Come on, you've been around long enough to know that a courtroom isn't a place to look for the truth.” - From the movie: The Apostle
“I quit school because I didn't like recess.”
- From the TV Series: Lonesome Dove
“- Augustus 'Gus' McCrae: Oh, I had a job waitin' tables once. S' on a riverboat. I wasn't no older than Newt, there, but I hadda give it up.
- Newt Dobbs: How come?
- Augustus 'Gus' McCrae: Well I was, too young and pretty and the whores wouldn't let me alone.” - From the TV Series: Lonesome Dove
- From the movie: True Grit
“- Ned Pepper: What's your intention? Do you think one on four is a dogfall?
- Rooster Cogburn: I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned. Or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience. Which'll it be?
- Ned Pepper: I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man.
- Rooster Cogburn: Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!” - From the TV Series: Lonesome Dove
“I'd like a chance to shoot at an educated man once in my life.”
- From the TV Series: Lonesome Dove
- From the movie: The Godfather
- From the TV Series: Lonesome Dove
“- Woodrow F. Call: [Call thinks Gus has died] Augustus.
- Augustus 'Gus' McCrae: [opens his eyes] By God, Woodrow; it's been one hell of a party.
[dies]” - From the movie: True Confessions
“- Det. Tom Spellacy: Msgr. Spellacy's table, please.
- Headwaiter: I thought that Msgr. Spellacy would be dining with Mr. Amsterdam.
- Det. Tom Spellacy: Well, you thought wrong, fuckhead.” - From the movie: The Paper
“Deadline: A date or time before which something must be done.”
- From the movie: A Family Thing
“- Ray Murdock: Don't go that way, you're gonna wal straight into the worst parts!
- Earl Pilcher, Jr.: I don't care! I ain't scared of you or any other tough nigger that comes up! Look, I didn't mean it like that.
- Ray Murdock: Only one way to mean it.” - From the movie: The Paper
“You're in management now. If everybody loved you, you'd be doing something wrong.”
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