176 Quotes by Robert De Niro

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.

You draw on whatever’s relevant to the part you’re playing. It makes it more personal.

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.

I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.

I'm lucky that I have whatever I had that makes me have a successful career, if you will.

I like to visit L.A., but I wouldn't want to live there.

Everyone's always interested in a dark theme, especially when there's humor connected to it. It seems like that helps, if that's an integral and organic part of the whole story.

In civilized societies, we spend our lifetimes trying to become what is socially acceptable. We're dark and we're light. We all have both sides to us.

Every set up that you do, everything is precisely modulated and raised and lowered.”