Quotes

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

The talent is in the choices.
-Robert De Niro

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

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

I am part Italian, I`m not all Italian. I`m part Dutch, I`m part French, I`m part German, I`m part Irish. But my name is Italian and I probably identify more with my Italian side than with my other parts.
-Robert de Niro

The whole thing is for younger people who are sexy and youthful.
-Robert de Niro

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

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

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

People treat me with a bit too much reverence. Look at Dustin Hoffman. I always envy the way he can speak and be smart and funny and so on. I just can`t do that.
-Robert de Niro

After my first movies, i gave interviews. Then i thought, what`s so important about where i went to school, and hobbies ... what does any of that have to do with acting, with my own head?
-Robert de Niro

I only go to Los Angeles when i am paid for it.
-Robert de Niro

I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.
-Robert De Niro

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

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

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

There is a mixture of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.
-Robert de Niro

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

Some people say, `New York`s a great place to visit, but I wouldn`t want to live there.` I say that about other places.
-Robert de Niro

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

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

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

The characters that I play are real. They are real so they have as much right to be portrayed as any other characters.
-Robert de Niro

Don`t talk it (Shooting a scene) away, do it!
-Robert de Niro

If there is a God he has a lot to answer for.
-Robert de Niro