Quotes by Robert De Niro

“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. A...”

“The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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, an...”

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

“These movies are like my children, except you can't remake my children in 3D to push up the grosses.”

“I don’t know, it’s crazy that people like Donald Trump ... he shouldn’t even be where he is, so God help us. What he’s been saying is really totally crazy, ridiculous ... he is totally nuts. But I ...”

“The administration’s mean-spiritedness towards our art and entertainment is an expression of their mean-spirited attitude about people who want that art and entertainment, people who also want and ...”

“When you started school, the country was an inspiring, uplifting drama. You are graduating into a tragic, dumbass comedy. My advice is to lock the [university’s] Van Wickle gates and stay here.”

“I’m gonna say one thing. Fuck Trump. It’s no longer down with Trump. It’s fuck Trump.”

“There’s something more powerful than bombs, and that’s your vote. People must vote!”

“We are in a moment in our lives, in this country, where this guy is like a gangster. We say over and over again: ‘This is terrible, we’re in a terrible situation, we’re in a terrible situation,’ an...”

“Give him a chance. That’s what I said right after he was elected. Give him a chance. I give everybody the benefit of the doubt. This guy has proven himself to be a total loser.”

“Even gangsters have morals, and they have ethics. They have a code, and you know when you give somebody your word, it’s your word, because it’s all you have is your word. This guy, he doesn’t even ...”

“It’s Shakespearean, the whole thing. You’ve got a lunatic saying things that people are trying to dance around. It’s appalling. He wants to be reelected. He doesn’t even care how many people die.”

“He doesn’t care for those people, and the people who he pretends to care about are the people he has the most disdain for. They might like to tell themselves or to delude themselves, but he doesn’t...”