Quotes from Robert De Niro

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

Leonardo DiCaprio is a very serious young actor.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The talent is in the choices.

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

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.

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

Loneliness has been following me my whole life.

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.

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.

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

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

Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work.

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

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.

The talent is in the choices.

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