I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience. – Robert Duvall
Ive always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, its like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. Thats the actors craft – using yourself to create a character. – Robert Duvall
Its like kids playing house: You play the father, Ill play the mother. You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. Its a game – actings a game. – Robert Duvall
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and… Wanda Sykes and John Legend… were adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And thats the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. – Henry Louis Gates