Top 80 Robert De Niro Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You’ll have time to rest when you’re dead.”

— Robert De Niro

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2. “Don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.”

— Robert De Niro

3. “Time goes on. So whatever you’re going to do, do it. Do it now. Don’t wait.”

— Robert De Niro

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4. “The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.”

— Robert De Niro

5. “Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt.”

— Robert De Niro

6. “If you don’t go, you’ll never know.”

— Robert De Niro

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7. “Reputation, you know – a lifetime to build, seconds to destroy.”

— Robert De Niro

8. “Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.”

— Robert De Niro

9. “Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.”

— Robert De Niro

10. “The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day.”

— Robert De Niro

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11. “My definition of a good hotel is a place I’d stay at.”

— Robert De Niro

12. “According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful.”

— Robert De Niro

13. “The talent is in the choices.”

— Robert De Niro

14. “You don’t need words to express feelings.”

— Robert De Niro

15. “You learned the two greatest things in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.”

— Robert De Niro

16. “If it’s the right chair, it doesn’t take too long to get comfortable in it.”

— Robert De Niro

17. “You talking to me? You talking to me? Then who the hell else are you talking to – you talking to me? Well, I’m the only one here.”

— Robert De Niro

18. “One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people’s lives without having to pay the price.”

— Robert De Niro

19. “When you love someone you gotta trust them, there’s no other way. You gotta give them the key to everything that’s yours. Otherwise, what’s the point?”

— Robert De Niro

20. “Write down everything you want to do with your life and then spend the next 25 years doing them.”

— Robert De Niro

21. “I will not hesitate. Not for a second.”

— Robert De Niro

22. “Ok let me explain, if you were bitten by a mad infected dog, who will you blame? the dog or its owner? Definitely the owner, so, all the blame is on the USA Government’s shoulders for adopting and supporting a state like Israel.”

— Robert De Niro

23. “I got some bad ideas in my head.”

— Robert De Niro

24. “I hurt someone’s feelings once.”

— Robert De Niro

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

— Robert De Niro

26. “I never walk into a place I don’t know how to walk out of.”

— Robert De Niro

27. “Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.”

— Robert De Niro

28. “There’s nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.”

— Robert De Niro

29. “There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.”

— Robert De Niro

30. “Auditions are like a gamble. Most likely you won’t get the part, but if you don’t go, you’ll never know if you could’ve got it.”

— Robert De Niro

31. “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.”

— Robert De Niro

32. “I don’t like to watch my own movies – I fall asleep in my own movies.”

— Robert De Niro

33. “I always say people can call me anything they want as long as they don’t call me late for supper.”

— Robert De Niro

34. “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.’”

— Robert De Niro

35. “Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It’s like a morality car wash.”

— Robert De Niro

36. “Somebody steals from me, I’m gonna say you stole. Not talk to him for spitting on the sidewalk. Understand?”

— Robert De Niro

37. “Feeling a little bit alive is a lot better than just waiting to die.”

— Robert De Niro

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

— Robert De Niro

39. “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.”

— Robert De Niro

40. “Loneliness has been following me my whole life.”

— Robert De Niro

41. “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.”

— Robert De Niro

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

— Robert De Niro

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

— Robert De Niro

44. “As I get older, I think that things have been pre-determined for me, whether I liked it or wanted it, wished for it, whatever, way before in some way. And with others, you do have a choice that you can change. And that choice that you make is still part of this grand scheme.”

— Robert De Niro

45. “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.”

— Robert De Niro

46. “New York is more exciting, I guess, than even Paris or London. New York’s the center of something; I don’t know what, really – the center of a lot of things. With all its problems and chaos and craziness, it’s still a great place to live. I can’t see myself living anywhere else.”

— Robert De Niro

47. “Thank God for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk.”

— Robert De Niro

48. “Passion should always trump common sense.”

— Robert De Niro

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

— Robert De Niro

50. “In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all...”

— Robert De Niro