Robert De Niro Quotes

• 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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• Leonardo DiCaprio is a very serious young actor.

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

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• 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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• My definition of a good hotel is a place I’d stay at.

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• 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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• 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.

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• The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.

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• When I was 15, 16, I studied with Stella Adler at the Conservatory of Acting, then I stopped again and went to the Actors Studio when I was 18.

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• You draw on whatever’s relevant to the part you’re playing; it makes it more personal.

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

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Robert De Niro (33)

Birth:	17th August, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Producer

About

Robert De Niro is an American actor, director and producer. His first major film roles were in Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets, both in 1973. In 1974, he played the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II, a role that won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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