Robert Duvall
Academy Award winner Robert Duvall has been called "the hippest man in America" by George Magazine. Bobby served in the Army and was released from active duty as a Private First Class having been awarded the National Defense Service Medal. Bobby's politics are fiercely independent and refreshingly well-thought.
I always find that there is a catch with people like her, some form of hypocrisy, Barbra Streisand won't go to Colorado because they passed a law that was a little prejudicial to gays, but I'll bet she'll go to Havana, Cuba, where they quarantine gays.
It's very easy for people in Hollywood or Hyannisport or these rich enclaves to say so-and-so should be penalized for not hiring certain minorities. But Hollywood is the most anti-affirmative action town in America. You name me one black or Hispanic head of a studio or agency. They may throw out a token. But they shouldn't criticize General Motors when they're worse.
Oliver Stone says Hollywood is the most democratic town in America. If it's so democratic, why isn't there a policy that allows any actor to go up to the front gate of a studio and try out for any movie? It's a caste system.
One guy asked me, 'How can you be an actor and be a Republican?' I can vote either way. But how can you boil it down to [political affiliation]? All the atrocities against blacks in the South were committed by Democratic sheriffs.
In some people's eyes, a guy who stays in the ghetto and beats his wife and votes Democratic is better than someone who votes Republican. It's another form of keeping the blacks down.