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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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" I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it - and you can achieve the same effect. "

Robert De Niro

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

Robert De Niro

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You

" Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky. "

" 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. "

" You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut. "

" I'm not a big football person at all. "

" The director respects what they've hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what you're doing. "

" Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong. "

" If it's the right chair, it doesn't take too long to get comfortable in it. "

" One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. "

" Time goes on. So whatever you're going to do, do it. Do it now. Don't wait. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life. "

" My definition of a good hotel is a place I'd stay at. "

" 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

Work

Thinking

" The talent is in the choices. "

Robert De Niro

Choices

Talent

" I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum. "

" Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome. "

" I don't get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character - do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day, what you gotta do is just go out there and do it. "

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

" I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors. "

" There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself. "

Robert De Niro

Ironic

Life

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

Robert De Niro

Fall

Movies

" Leonardo DiCaprio is a very serious young actor. "

" You never know what you do that could be totally out of left field, which actually might work and give something fresh to the whole scene, to the character, whatever. If you have that with a director who then knows how to shape it, either in the direction, in the moment, or in the editing, then that's good. "

" Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work. "

" If it's a very emotional scene, you're kind of relieved when you've done it, kind of spent. And there are times when you can be rattled, certain characters if they're hyper, that can carry over, the residue of that. But I try to leave it on the set. "

" 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. "

" I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else. "