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" 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. "

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" Leonardo DiCaprio is a very serious young actor. "

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

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Life

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality. "

" The talent is in the choices. "

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Choices

Talent

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10. "

" 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. "

" Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome. "

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

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Will

You

" 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 always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little. "

" I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.' "

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

" There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work. "

" 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. "

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

" You'll have time to rest when you're dead. "