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Robert De Niro
Actor
Born:
Aug 17
,
1943
Actor
Life
Like
People
Work
You
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You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.
Robert De Niro
Life
You
Rat
Mouth
Never
Learned
Greatest
Always
Greatest Thing
Friends
Your
Keep
Thing
Shut
Two
If it's the right chair, it doesn't take too long to get comfortable in it.
Robert De Niro
Long
Too
Take
Comfortable
Get
Chair
Right
Time goes on. So whatever you're going to do, do it. Do it now. Don't wait.
Robert De Niro
Time
You
Wait
Whatever
Goes
Going
Now
There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.
Robert De Niro
Life
Nothing
More
Itself
Contradictory
Than
Ironic
Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.
Robert De Niro
Changed
Italy
Rome
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
Truth
Class
Truth Is
Think
System
Asylum
Running
Like
Hollywood
Actor
There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.
Robert De Niro
Work
Discipline
Way
Anarchy
Combination
Certain
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
Life
Try
Behavior
Situation
Back
Would
Always
Real
Go
Real Human
Human
Human Behavior
Acting
Actually
I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.
Robert De Niro
Fall
Own
My Own
Like
Movies
Asleep
Watch
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
You
Achieve
Become
Older
Spent
Stay
About
More
Feel
Effect
Bloody
Mama
Get
Intense
Same
Confident
Younger
Less
Help
Grave
Lunchtime
Filming
Need
Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.
Robert De Niro
Life
You
Money
Easier
Makes
Your
Lucky
I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.
Robert De Niro
You
People
Treat
Important
Few
Think
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Obscurity
Had
Like
Least
Years
Where
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
Good
You
Understanding
Out
Directors
He
Wrong
Feel
Make
Gentleness
Intensity
Sensitivity
Certain
Certain Things
Actor
Things
Bring
I like to visit L.A., but I wouldn't want to live there.
Robert De Niro
Live
Visit
Like
Want
I'm lucky that I have whatever I had that makes me have a successful career, if you will.
Robert De Niro
Me
You
Will
Whatever
Had
Makes
Successful
Lucky
Career
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
You
People
Pay
Live
Other
One Of The Things
About
Having
Price
Without
Acting
Lives
Things
It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.
Robert De Niro
People
Hide
Try
Feelings
Important
Indicate
Them
Show
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.
Robert De Niro
Conservatory
Adler
Stella
Studied
Studio
Stopped
Again
Then
Acting
Actor
I don't get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character - do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day, what you gotta do is just go out there and do it.
Robert De Niro
Day
Character
You
End Of The Day
Out
About
Gotta
Go
End
Discussions
Get
Just
Heavy
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.
Robert De Niro
Myself
Human Being
Personality
Those
Never
Had
Been
Human
Being
Decide
Whether
Who
Fascinating
Actor
Early
I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.
Robert De Niro
Great
Montgomery
Harris
Marlon Brando
Admired
Named
Were
Brando
Barbara
Mean
Actor
Actress
With 'Silver Linings,' I didn't feel - I was thinking of certain things, but I just said, 'Let me go with it.' You have to know what you're doing, where you're going with the scenes, and I put a lot of work into that. But when you're out there, at the same time you gotta be ready for anything.
Robert De Niro
Work
Time
Me
You
Thinking
Out
Silver
Scenes
Put
Feel
Know
Ready
Said
Gotta
Doing
Go
Lot
Same
Going
Just
Same Time
Where
Anything
Certain
Certain Things
Things
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.
Robert De Niro
Work
Good
Character
You
Director
Editing
Whatever
Field
Out
Totally
Give
Something
Direction
Scene
Could
Shape
Never
Know
Knows
Fresh
How
Left
Left Field
Either
Which
Might
Then
Moment
Who
Whole
Actually
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