Robert De Niro Quotes

• You’ll have time to rest when you’re dead.

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• One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people’s lives without having to pay the price. I’ve never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.

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• Money makes your life easier. If you’re lucky to have it, you’re lucky.

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• One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people’s lives without having to pay the price.

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• I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they’re running the asylum.

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• I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, ‘There’s no place like New York. It’s the most exciting city in the world now. That’s the way it is. That’s it.’

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• I don’t like to watch my own movies – I fall asleep in my own movies.

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• It’s important not to indicate. People don’t try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

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• There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

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• The talent is in the choices.

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• There’s nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

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• When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody’s face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.

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• You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.

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• I didn’t have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you’re rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You’re behind the eight ball when you go in there.

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• I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it’s very simple and honest and contained. You don’t need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that’s another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.

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• Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong.

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• I love to find new people. It’s not for the sake of their being new; it’s because if you find someone who perfectly fits a part, that’s such a great thing.

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• I like to visit L.A., but I wouldn’t want to live there.

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• I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.

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• Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

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Robert De Niro (33)

Birth:	17th August, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Producer

About

Robert De Niro is an American actor, director and producer. His first major film roles were in Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets, both in 1973. In 1974, he played the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II, a role that won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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