10 Iconic Film Performances With Hardly Any Screen Time
5. Robert Duvall Apocalypse Now
His role may have only amounted to less than 20 minutes, but Robert Duvalls performance as Captain Kilgore in Apocalypse Now not only earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor it also saw him utter what is undoubtedly one of the most iconic quotes in cinema history. That would be I love the smell of napalm in the morning, for those not up to speed on their classic Vietnam War dramas. As the surf-obsessed and often shirtless Kilgore, Duvall commands the movie even alongside heavyweights like Marlon Brando and Dennis Hopper, and his most famous scene delivered oh-so calmly against a backdrop of bombs and swooping helicopters perfectly captures the sheer madness that was the Vietnam War.
