- Actor | August 17, 1943 -
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
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I like to visit L.A., but I wouldn't want to live there.
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Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.
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I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there.
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You'll have time to rest when you're dead.
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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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I have so much respect for directors. It's a tremendous amount of pressure; you have to keep steadfast and keep what you know is right.
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There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.
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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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Leonardo DiCaprio is a very serious young actor.
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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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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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