Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. (/də ˈnɪəroʊ/; born August 17, 1943) is an Italian-American actor, producer, and director.
The hardest thing about being famous is that. . . in a conversation everybody's agreeing with what you're saying. . . . You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.
If De Niro wants to spend the twilight of his career as the McDonald's of master thespians, we can't stop him.
When you are working hard, you don't have time for anything other than what you are doing in the scene and what the director wants.
Reputation, you know – a lifetime to build, seconds to destroy.
Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.
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.
Things rarely turn out the way we want them to.
There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.
You don't need words to express feelings.
I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.
Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.
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.
New York is more exciting, I guess, than even Paris or London. New York's the center of something; I don't know what, really - the center of a lot of things. With all its problems and chaos and craziness, it's still a great place to live. I can't see myself living anywhere else.
One regret I have: I didn't get as much of the family history as I could have for the kids.
There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.
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.
Even I like to go to certain restaurants and places where you have to wear a jacket, a suit and a tie, and I like that sort of old world style. I am sure it will come back in many ways, if it hasn't already. It's kind of nice and it breaks it up.
The one thing I always talk about in terms of restaurants is consistency.
Auditions are like a gamble. Most likely you won't get the part, but if you don't go, you'll never know if you could've got it.
Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash.