Quotes by Robert De Niro

“Esquire, January 2003.”

“I like it when interviews are brief. Are we done yet?”

“Some people say, New York's a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. I say that about other places.”

“There's no such thing as not being afraid.”

“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.”

“The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying—even if you say something totally crazy. You ne...”

“When I'm directing a great dramatic scene, part of me is saying, Thank God I don't have to do that. Because I know how fucking hard it is to act. It's the middle of the night. It's freezing. You go...”

“As you get older, the more complicated things get. It's almost therapeutic to be doing simple things with the kids.”

“If you don't go, you'll never know.”

“David Smith, Robert De Niro: ‘Trump is a real racist, a white supremacist’, The Guardian, (January 6, 2019)”

“I’m older now and I’m just upset about what’s going on. When you see someone like [Trump] becoming president, I thought, well, OK, let’s see what he does – maybe he’ll change. But he just got worse...”

“If he had his way, we’d wind up in a very bad state in this country. I mean, the way I understand it, they laughed at Hitler. They all look funny. Hitler looked funny, Mussolini looked funny and ot...”

“What bothers me is that there will be people in the future who see him as an example and they’ll be affected in some way, but they’ll be a lot smarter and have many more colours to their personalit...”

“I mean, a mob boss calls people ‘a rat’. That means you lied and somebody snitched on you, so you did commit the crime. So that’s interesting, and he makes mobsters look bad because there are mobst...”

“Trump is basic. He’s just a guy who just thinks he can rattle off his mouth and say anything. Well, I want to say the same thing to him: there are people who are going to say the same thing back to...”

“Rupert Murdoch became a citizen of this country; look what he’s contributed by this. This is what he’s going to leave. This is his legacy. It’s disgraceful. He’s cynical, amoral, but he has a respo...”

“You need somebody who’s strong enough to outmouth him – because that’s all he is, mouth – and smart enough and well-informed enough in a debate, say, to override all that nonsense that he does, be-...”

“Andrew Pulver, Robert De Niro on Donald Trump: 'I can't wait to see him in jail', The Guardian, (October 11, 2019)”

“We have a real, immediate problem in that we have a gangster president who thinks he can do any-thing he wants … the problem is, if he actually gets away with it, then we all have a problem. The ga...”