Robert De Niro Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Ideally, when you play a character, she goes away with half of you, and you go away with half of her. And you learn something.

Jessie Buckley

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I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

Robert Smith

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Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.

Matthew Vaughn

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I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.

Angela Carter

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The only goal is in the process. The process is in the thing with little flashes of light: those are the gigs, the live shows... it's the life in between. That's all I've got.

Jeff Buckley

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I was either going onstage or going into an interview or getting on a plane. You can't really feel everything fully when you don't have the time to process.

Meredith Brooks

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If I wear bright colors or something, I'll tie all my hair back. I don't want to look too like 'Girls Next Door.'

Sophie Monk

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The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

Shimon Peres

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Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

Mohsin Hamid

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Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

Louis Farrakhan

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All experiment is made on a basis of tradition; all tradition is the crystallization of experiment.

Louis MacNeice

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I'm a bad artist. I'm lazy and untalented and bad.

Lisa Hanawalt

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