Robert De Niro Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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