Top 100 Quotes About Robert De Niro

#1. I actually love auditioning because I usually don't get the part. I've tested with Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Tom Cruise. So I've gotten to that point, and I understand when I don't get it. There are a lot of very talented people out there.

Deborah Kara Unger

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#2. You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

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#3. Robert De Niro's sort of like a surfer: he doesn't really force anything. So if he catches the wave, or something spills out - to watch a guy be a force at what he does. He has a good worth ethic.

Paul Dano

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#4. When I was working on 'Men of Honor' with Robert De Niro, there's a pipe that he has in the movie, and it took us about six weeks to find the right pipe for him to use and feel comfortable with. It was a great choice, because it was really about what worked with the camera at that time.

George Tillman Jr.

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#5. I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.

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#6. In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all ...

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#7. Analyze This is a good movie because Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal are really good. But without the material to put on the play, of course, they couldn't be good. For me, it starts with the writing.

Harold Ramis

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#8. Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady?

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#9. A guy told me one time, Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner

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#10. I don't remember what made me want to be an actor. In fact, I'm always curious.

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#11. Feeling a little bit alive is a lot better than just waiting to die.

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#12. If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet.

Michael Winslow

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#13. If you don't co-operate you're gonna suffer from fistophobia.

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#14. If De Niro wants to spend the twilight of his career as the McDonald's of master thespians, we can't stop him.

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#15. You'll have time to rest when you're dead.

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#16. 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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#17. I guess the only thing to do now is meet his parents. I'm sure they're decent people. I mean they gotta be if they named their son Gaylord Focker.

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#18. 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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#19. Everyone's always interested in a dark theme, especially when there's humor connected to it. It seems like that helps, if that's an integral and organic part of the whole story.

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#20. Whats nice about my dating life is that I dont have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: Im marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.

Julia Roberts

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#21. I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I'll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I'd like to meet them.

Barkhad Abdi

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#22. In civilized societies, we spend our lifetimes trying to become what is socially acceptable. We're dark and we're light. We all have both sides to us.

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#23. There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

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#24. I always say people can call me anything they want as long as they don't call me late for supper.

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#25. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best. You don't want to work with people who don't care or who are acting out some neurotic, crazy thesis on the set.

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#26. 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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#27. I like people like Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins. And Gianfranco Zola, who played for Chelsea and Italy. He's an artist with his feet.

Phil Daniels

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#28. As an actor who's starting out, you can't say, "Hey, I'm too good for this." You gotta do it, because people see you, your name gets around, and it has a cumulative effect.

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#29. The director respects what they've hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what you're doing.

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#30. Auditions are like a gamble. Most likely you won't get the part, but if you don't go, you'll never know if you could've got it.

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#31. Robert De Niro ... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.

Famke Janssen

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#32. Ok let me explain, if you were bitten by a mad infected dog, who will you blame? the dog or its owner? Definitely the owner, so, all the blame is on the USA Government's shoulders for adopting and supporting a state like Israel

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#33. I'm not a big football person at all.

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#34. The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that's on a good day.

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#35. You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it's all about. A deer's gotta be taken with one shot.

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#36. I have to be able to trust you with my life. Do you understand?

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#37. In fact, when they wake up in the morning, they're Jack Nicholson or Robert De Niro or Josh Brolin. And it's built-in, but they think it's all this other stuff. But it's not. They'd be great if they didn't think about their part or if they did think about it.

Woody Allen

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#38. 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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#39. I always tell actors when they go in for an audition: Don't be afraid to do what your instincts tell you. You may not get the part, but people will take notice.

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#40. In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.

Matthew Rhys

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#41. Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt.

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#42. One regret I have: I didn't get as much of the family history as I could have for the kids.

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#43. I'm lucky that I have whatever I had that makes me have a successful career, if you will.

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#44. The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

Jackie Chan

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#45. The talent is in the choices.

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#46. Robert De Niro taught me how to listen, and how to be part of the conversation. It's not just about reading your lines and saying what's in the script; you have to understand your character, along with the other characters so that you can always respond.

Cathy Moriarty

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#47. You don't always have to have the answer to everything.

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#48. If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.

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#49. I would love to work with Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I think they're wonderful actors.

Catherine Deneuve

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#50. My definition of a good hotel is a place I'd stay at.

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#51. I like to visit L.A., but I wouldn't want to live there.

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#52. You don't need words to express feelings.

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#53. I saw 'Taxi Driver,' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.

Michael Biehn

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#54. I have so much respect for directors. It's a tremendous amount of pressure; you have to keep steadfast and keep what you know is right.

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#55. I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it - and you can achieve the same effect.

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#56. I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.

Eddie Murphy

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#57. I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

Jackie Chan

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#58. The only reason I did Showtime was Robert De Niro. I definitely consider him to be in the top 5 all time actors.

Eddie Murphy

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#59. I was recognized as being an artist and a storyteller. If Hulk Hogan was the Elvis of wrestling, I was the Robert De Niro.

Bret Hart

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#60. Every star, whether it's Harrison Ford or Robert De Niro, is remembered by one film. Persis is a star in the sky - how can a star be forgotten when all you have to do is look up and see her?

Persis Khambatta

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#61. My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10.

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#62. New York is more exciting, I guess, than even Paris or London. New York's the center of something; I don't know what, really - the center of a lot of things. With all its problems and chaos and craziness, it's still a great place to live. I can't see myself living anywhere else.

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#63. I can get around pretty easily. People don't expect to see me walking around.

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#64. Leonardo DiCaprio is a very serious young actor.

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#65. If it's the right chair, it doesn't take too long to get comfortable in it.

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#66. Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash.

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#67. People say I'm into black women. Robert De Niro is into black women. I'm just into women who are real, and they happen to be black.

Bill Maher

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#68. If it's a very emotional scene, you're kind of relieved when you've done it, kind of spent. And there are times when you can be rattled, certain characters if they're hyper, that can carry over, the residue of that. But I try to leave it on the set.

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#69. You always learn something about movies. Directing or acting, there's always something new. It's the technological thing; there's always something to learn.

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#70. If you don't go, you'll never know.

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#71. I shoot a lot of film - that's one of the things I try to do, and it's one of the things I learned how to do with Robert De Niro on 'Men of Honor.'

George Tillman Jr.

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#72. 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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#73. Everybody's in New York and, hopefully, my younger kids will go to college in New York and find something they want to do so they'll stay in the city

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#74. I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.

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#75. My business partner Robert De Niro knows a lot about hotels; he opened the Greenwich Hotel in New York City.

Nobu Matsuhisa

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

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#77. Write down everything you want to do with your life and then spend the next 25 years doing them.

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#78. When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.

Sean Penn

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#79. I will not hesitate. Not for a second.

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#80. Thank God for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk.

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#81. 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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#82. I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.

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#83. It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New York men. I'm an ethnic New York girl. Everybody has their limitations. I mean, I should never be cast as Queen Elizabeth.

Ellen Barkin

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#84. There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything.

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#85. I never walk into a place I don't know how to walk out of.

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#86. 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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#87. Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

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#88. I got some bad ideas in my head.

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#89. 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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#90. I grew up watching Marlon Brando, Christopher Walken, Robert de Niro, and Al Pacino and even Robert Duvall and was impressed by their caliber of work.

Cole Hauser

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#91. There was, he thought, an emotional truth here somewhere, and he could see now that his role-playing had a previously unsuspected artistic element to it. He was acting, yes, but in the noblest, most profound sense of the word. He wasn't a fraud. He was Robert De Niro.

Nick Hornby

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#92. Things rarely turn out the way we want them to.

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#93. According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful.

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#94. I always enjoy coming to Israel. Israelis are warm, they're energetic people. Forthright. Very smart. I always like smart people. They're nice people, you know. Aggressive, and I respect that aggressiveness because you need it in their situation.

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#95. You'd get on the plane; and every single person is somebody really, really famous. It just killed me. On one flight you'd have Linda Gray, O.J. Simpson, Robert De Niro, Carol Burnett, Loni Anderson and Burt Reynolds ... and Francis Ford Coppola.

Paul Reubens

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#96. I was thrilled to work opposite Carl Reiner and Robert De Niro. Mr. Reiner was very chatty and delightful, but I learned that if you want Robert De Niro to like you, don't speak at all, and he'll be friendly to you.

Janeane Garofalo

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#97. Time goes on. So whatever you're going to do, do it. Do it now. Don't wait.

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#98. I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera.

Mira Sorvino

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#99. I don't get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character - do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day, what you gotta do is just go out there and do it.

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#100. When you love someone you gotta trust them, there's no other way. You gotta give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point?

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