Duvall

He came up in 1962's To Kill a Mockingbird and he hasn't stopped working since. Robert Duvall remains one of the finest actors in the land. At eighty, his box office appeal is undaunted. His talent is unquestioned, his ability to find his character's core and create something completely compelling is absolute. Who can forget his turn as Lt. Col. Kilgore in Apocalypse Now, or his loving rendition of a bruised-by-life country singer in Tender Mercies?

What a gift to the art of cinema!

"You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. But the smell! You know - that gasoline smell... the whole hill! Smelled like... victory.
(Pause)
Some day this war is going to end..."


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