Robert De Niro

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

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

Leonardo DiCaprio is a very serious young actor.

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.'

The talent is in the choices.

When I was 15, 16, I studied with Stella Adler at the Conservatory of Acting, then I stopped again and went to the Actors Studio when I was 18.

I don't get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character - do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day, what you gotta do is just go out there and do it.

My definition of a good hotel is a place I'd stay at.

I always tell actors when they go in for an audition: Don't be afraid to do what your instincts tell you. You may not get the part, but people will take notice.

I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.

I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.

My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10.

I'm not a big football person at all.

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

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

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

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