Robert De Niro - biography

“Acting isn’t really respected enough as an art.”

“I got this image of Travis as a crab.  To prepare for that, I swam around underwater and looked at the sea life.  I’ve used a cat, a wolf, a rabbit, a snake, an owl.  Certain animals give you certain feelings.”

“I prefer to be like a gambler.  If you don’t throw, you’ll never know.”

“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 good at editing how I feel.”

“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.”

“It’s just as hard to make a bad movie as it is too make a good movie.”

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

“Shakespeare is great.  But I’d rather have the same problems in a contemporary situation where people can relate to it more directly.”

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

“There’s nothing more offensive to me than watching an actor act with his ego.”

“What’s the difference how you do it?  You’ve just got to do it as long as it’s right within the nature of the situation.”

“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’m here for the - um, er, um - experience.”

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

“Everybody wants to direct.”

“The worst is a director that tells someone to do something.  They don’t understand you could do it another way.”

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

“Movies are in major trouble.  They’re aiming most of the movies at children - the most mindless, uninformative and vulgar bunch of projects.”

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

“Describe myself?  That’s a tough one.”

“My image is a little wearing.  I don’t always want to be heavy.  It depends on the material.”

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

“A Hollywood star is death as far as acting is concerned.  I don’t want people to recognize me in the streets.  I don’t want to do what real stars have to do - repeat themselves in film after film after film, always being themselves.”

“The talent is in the choices.”

“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.’”

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

Robert De Niro has appeared in the following films:
Trois chambres à Manhattan (1965)
Greetings (1968)
Sam’s Song (1969)
The Wedding Party (1969)
Bloody Mama (1970)
Hi, Mom! (1970)
Jennifer on My Mind (1971)
Born to Win (1971)
The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight (1971)
Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
Mean Streets (1973)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Bertolucci secondo il cinema (1975)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Novecento (1976)
The Last Tycoon (1976)
1900 (1976)
New York, New York (1977)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
The Swap (1979)
Raging Bull (1980)
True Confessions (1981)
The King of Comedy (1982)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Falling in Love (1984)
Brazil (1985)
The Mission (1986)
Angel Heart (1987)
The Untouchables (1987)
Midnight Run (1988)
Jacknife (1989)
We’re No Angels (1989)
Stanley & Iris (1990)
Goodfellas (1990)
Awakenings (1990)
Guilty by Suspicion (1991)
Backdraft (1991)
Cape Fear (1991)
Mistress (1992)
Night and the City (1992)
Mad Dog and Glory (1993)
This Boy’s Life (1993)
A Bronx Tale (1993)
Frankenstein (1994)
Les Cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)
Casino (1995)
Heat (1995)
The Fan (1996)
Sleepers (1996)
Marvin’s Room (1996)
Cop Land (1997)
Wag the Dog (1997)
Jackie Brown (1997)
Great Expectations (1998)
Ronin (1998)
Analyze This (1999)
Flawless (1999)
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000)
Men of Honor (2000)
Meet the Parents (2000)
15 Minutes (2001)
The Score (2001)
Showtime (2002)
City by the Sea (2002)
Analyze That (2002)
Godsend (2004)
Shark Tale (2004)
Meet the Fockers (2004)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004)
Hide and Seek (2005)
Arthur et les Minimoys (2006)
The Good Shepherd (2006)
Stardust (2007)
What Just Happened (2008)
Righteous Kill (2008)
Everybody’s Fine (2009)
Frankie Machine (2010)
Little Fockers (2010)
Stone (2010)
Machete (2010)
New Year’s Eve (2011)
Killer Elite (2011)
Limitless (2011)
Being Flynn (2012)
Red Lights (2012)


Robert De Niro directed the following films:
A Bronx Tale (1993)
The Good Shepherd (2006)