Robert De Niro Quotes

When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.

Robert De Niro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
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  • Birth: August 17, 1943

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You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.

Jimmy Smits

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The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

Jerzy Kosinski

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My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born.

Jeremy Lloyd

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I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.

Steve Carell

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The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class.

Sloan Wilson

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Wisdom begins in wonder.

Socrates

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People who find that they have a lot of drama in their relationships need to allow themselves to get 'bored'. At first, it will feel excruciating, and they may find themselves confronting a very real fear underneath all that drama: being truly close and therefore vulnerable to another human being.

Tracy McMillan

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I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.

Tommy Lasorda

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I always wanted to have my own company. It was a psychological issue.

Mickey Drexler

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I've always dreamed that George Lucas would call me one day and ask me to be in one of the 'Star Wars' films.

Ming-Na Wen

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I had no occasion for an apron on that morning.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

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When determining appropriate levels of compensation, management must determine if the employee turnover rate is too low, too high, or just right. If turnover rate is high enough to adversely impact the entity's performance, then employee compensation is probably too low.

Jason Chaffetz

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