176 Quotes by Robert De Niro

You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it’s all about. A deer’s gotta be taken with one shot.

You do what you do best, try to stop guys like me.

When you feel that you can’t fight it, you just go for it. When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense.

If you’re an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.

If you don’t co-operate you’re gonna suffer from fistophobia.

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.

If De Niro wants to spend the twilight of his career as the McDonald’s of master thespians, we can’t stop him.

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.

It’s important not to indicate. People don’t try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.