Robert De Niro famous quotes

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.
-- Robert De Niro

#Character #Simple #Thinking

The one thing I always talk about in terms of restaurants is consistency. I think that's what we love about the vodka, is that it's consistent. It's consistent in its pureness and that's how I tie it to restaurants. When I think of a good restaurant, it's where the food has been consistent; there's always a consistency.
-- Robert De Niro

#Thinking #Ties #Consistency

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.
-- Robert De Niro

#Nice #Smart #Israel

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.
-- Robert De Niro

#People #Feelings #Important

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.
-- Robert De Niro

#Crush #Procrastination #Good Day

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.
-- Robert De Niro

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.
-- Robert De Niro

#Eight #Rejection #Balls

One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.
-- Robert De Niro

#People #Acting #Pay

The talent is in the choices.
-- Robert De Niro

#Choices #Talent

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

#Two #Mouths #Rats

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.
-- Robert De Niro

#People #Sake #Fit

If it's the right chair, it doesn't take too long to get comfortable in it.
-- Robert De Niro

#Inspirational #Long #Chairs

In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.
-- Robert De Niro

#Real #Trying #Acting

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.
-- Robert De Niro

#Ironic #Contradictory

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.
-- Robert De Niro

#Running #Reality #Thinking

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
-- Robert De Niro

#Dog #Israel #Usa

Time goes on. So whatever you're going to do, do it. Do it now. Don't wait.
-- Robert De Niro

#Waiting #Goes On #Time Goes On

Thank God for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk.
-- Robert De Niro

#Rain #Thank God #Trash

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.
-- Robert De Niro

#Character #Needs #Mama

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.
-- Robert De Niro

#People #Actors #May

My definition of a good hotel is a place I'd stay at.
-- Robert De Niro

#Definitions #Hotel

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.'
-- Robert De Niro

#New York #Rome #Cities

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.
-- Robert De Niro

#Discipline #Way #Anarchy

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.
-- Robert De Niro

#Rome #Changed

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.
-- Robert De Niro

#Understanding #Directors #Actors

Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.
-- Robert De Niro

#Kings #Night #Lifetime

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent
-- Robert De Niro

#Talent #Life Is

I never walk into a place I don't know how to walk out of.
-- Robert De Niro

#Walks

Loneliness has been following me my whole life.
-- Robert De Niro

#Loneliness #Whole Life #Following

Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt.
-- Robert De Niro

#Doubt

You do what you do best, try to stop guys like me
-- Robert De Niro

#Guy #Trying

You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it's all about. A deer's gotta be taken with one shot.
-- Robert De Niro

#Taken #Thinking #Deer

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.
-- Robert De Niro

#Personality #Actors #Humans

I always say people can call me anything they want as long as they don't call me late for supper.
-- Robert De Niro

#Long #People #Want

Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.
-- Robert De Niro

#Real #Rain #Scum

I have to be able to trust you with my life. Do you understand?
-- Robert De Niro

#Life #Able

Reputation, you know – a lifetime to build, seconds to destroy.
-- Robert De Niro

#Reputation #Lifetime

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.
-- Robert De Niro

#Drama #Home #Hands

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.
-- Robert De Niro

#Mother #Husband #School

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.
-- Robert De Niro

#Character #Acting #Actors

Sometimes if you have financial restraints, it's a benefit. It forces you to come up with a more creative way.
-- Robert De Niro

#Creative #Acting #Benefits

Feeling a little bit alive is a lot better than just waiting to die.
-- Robert De Niro

#Waiting #Feelings #Alive

Somebody steals from me, I'm gonna say you stole. Not talk to him for spitting on the sidewalk. Understand?
-- Robert De Niro

#Money #Stealing #Sidewalk

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.
-- Robert De Niro

#Funny #Witty #Mean

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.
-- Robert De Niro

#Strength #Character #Long

The director respects what they've hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what you're doing.
-- Robert De Niro

#Directors #Chosen

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

#Thinking #Years #People

You talking to me? You talking to me? Then who the hell else are you talking to - you talking to me? Well, I'm the only one here.
-- Robert De Niro

#Badass #Talking #Hell

A lot of young actors have the idea that, "I've got to do this right. There's a right way to do this." But there's no right or wrong. There's only good and bad. And "bad" usually happens when you're trying too hard to do it right. There's a very broad spectrum of things that can inhibit you. The most important thing for actors - and not just actors, but everybody - is to feel loose enough to create what you want to create, and be free to try anything. To have choices.
-- Robert De Niro

#Success #Ideas #Choices

Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.
-- Robert De Niro

#Money #Lucky #Easier

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.
-- Robert De Niro

#Funny #Sexy #Grateful

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

#Mean #Actors #Actresses

You never know what you do that could be totally out of left field, which actually might work and give something fresh to the whole scene, to the character, whatever. If you have that with a director who then knows how to shape it, either in the direction, in the moment, or in the editing, then that's good.
-- Robert De Niro

#Character #Editing #Giving

One regret I have: I didn't get as much of the family history as I could have for the kids.
-- Robert De Niro

#Regret #Kids #Family History

Write down everything you want to do with your life and then spend the next 25 years doing them.
-- Robert De Niro

#Writing #Years #Want

You draw on whatever’s relevant to the part you’re playing. It makes it more personal.
-- Robert De Niro

#Relevant #Draws

I will not hesitate. Not for a second.
-- Robert De Niro

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...
-- Robert De Niro

#Money #Play #Gambling

Things rarely turn out the way we want them to.
-- Robert De Niro

#Decision #Way #Want

When you make a movie, everyone should leave their own personal problems at home. When they start bringing those to set, filming can be very difficult... You don't need any extra drama. Put the drama into the story, in the characters.
-- Robert De Niro

#Drama #Character #Home

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?
-- Robert De Niro

#Love #Keys #Giving

There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything.
-- Robert De Niro

#Truth #Reality #Way

'What's the difference between sex and love?' Hmm. That's a good question. Hey, you interviewed Al Pacino. How'd he answer that?'
-- Robert De Niro

#Relationship #Sex #Differences

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
-- Robert De Niro

#Nice #People #Fame

If you don't co-operate you're gonna suffer from fistophobia.
-- Robert De Niro

#Suffering

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.
-- Robert De Niro

#Heat #Feels #Walks