Duvall: "No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project."

Duvall: "Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning."

Duvall: "In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot."

Duvall: "Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring."

Duvall: "Acting isn't difficult. You just do it. Everybody in life acts anyhow, President Nixon, The Pope, even John Lennon."

Duvall: "I'm not a fan of CGI, I think it's a bit lazy. Look at what many filmmakers accomplished before it came along!"

Duvall: "If I had listened to everyone who told me no, I'd never have gotten anything accomplished. When I really believe in something and someone says, 'You can't do it,' it just spurs me on."

Duvall: "Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same."

Duvall: "But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it."

[On filming The Shining] 

Duvall: "That was a life experience like the Vietnam War probably was for veterans. It was grueling -- six days a week, 12- to 16-hour days, half an hour off for lunch, for a year and one month. The role demanded that I cry for, whew, at least nine of those months. Jack [Nicholson] had to be angry all the time, and I had to be in hysterics all the time. It was very upsetting."

Duvall: "I like to pick my own vegetables."

Duvall: "I struggled to get a decent acting job for years, before finally giving it a rest for a while. It would be great to start all over again, if the right role came along."

Duvall: "When I play a character, at that moment nothing else exists. Certainly no theory. I try not to intellectualize."

Duvall: "I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks."

Duvall: "The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong."

Duvall: "I suppose I learned organization from Altman."

Duvall: "Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs."

Duvall: "Life is all about movement, and when you stop moving, you're dead! That's my big philosophy -- it's all about motion. Life can change in the blinking of an eye, so you just have to appreciate every minute and keep going."

Duvall: "You don't direct ostriches, you herd them."

[On The Shining and Stanley Kubrick] 

Duvall: "Stanley's head to head approach brought the very best out of Jack, Scatman, me, Danny, everybody. The mixture of anger, frustration, and ideas made the film really fly. I might have hated him at the time, but I now see him as a really important filmmaker who gave me the role of my life and made me the sort of actress I never dared think I'd become."

Duvall: "I might get killed, but I wouldn't die. I'd be born again as another me - or a lampshade, but I'll be on earth - always... [I] believe in everything and everybody existing forever and on and on in the same or other forms."

Duvall: "I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist."

Duvall: "Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet?"