Robert De Niro Quotes

Robert De Niro — Actor born on August 17, 1943,

Robert De Niro is an American actor and producer who has starred in over 90 films. His first major film roles were in the sports drama Bang the Drum Slowly and Martin Scorsese's crime film Mean Streets. In 1974, after being turned down for the role of Sonny Corleone in the crime film The Godfather, he was cast as the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor... (wikipedia)

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.

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.

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

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