Robert De Niro Biography

On acting:

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

"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."

Others:

“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.”

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

Film quotes:

“They're all animals anyway. All the criminals come out at night. Whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets."
Robert de Niro, playing Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver

"You talking to me? YOU TALKING TO ME?"
Robert de Niro, playing Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver

Tag line to Taxi Driver: "On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody."