Robert De Niro (b.1943) is an American actor, producer, and director. He has appeared in more than 60 movies during a 40-year career.
Together with director Martin Scorsese, a teenage acquaintance from the streets of his native New York City, De Niro made a series of films that have become prominent American classics, including Mean Streets (1973,) Taxi Driver (1976,) Raging Bull (1980,) King of Comedy (1983,) and GoodFellas (1990.)
De Niro’s other prominent movies include Bang the Drum Slowly (1973,) The Godfather Part II (1974,) The Deer Hunter (1978,) A Bronx Tale (1993; which he directed,) and Meet the Fockers (2004.)
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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.
—Robert De Niro
There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.
—Robert De Niro
Topics: Discipline
You’ll have time to rest when you’re dead.
—Robert De Niro
There’s nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.
—Robert De Niro
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