When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.
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Related I'm a De Niro fan. I went eleven years without seeing a movie; the last one before that, Februar... AUGUST WILSON When I was coming up, everybody wanted to be Tom Hanks. There was always Robert De Niro and Al Pacin... JOHN SLATTERY I was thrilled to work opposite Carl Reiner and Robert De Niro. Mr. Reiner was very chatty and delig... JANEANE GAROFALO When I was working on 'Men of Honor' with Robert De Niro, there's a pipe that he has in ... GEORGE TILLMAN, JR. The first movie I saw where it convinced me I could be an actor was 'Mean Streets,' so whene... DENIS LEARY I really hope people go back and watch his movies, because he was such a fantastic actor, and he is ... WINONA RYDER When I was a kid, I loved Elvis, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. But I had no connection to Holl... DWAYNE JOHNSON I remember the first time I saw Robert De Niro at a party. I didn't want to run over and shake h... JASON STATHAM Robert De Niro... I had a chance to meet him, and I hope to get to work with him one day. ALI FAZAL Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he ha... CHRIS ISAAK When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out. DERYCK WHIBLEY When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER When I was a teenager, the actors I was really into were Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn. I saw 'Rum... AIDAN GILLEN I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I ... DAVE MUSTAINE A mustache really defines your face. My dad had a mustache when I was growing up, and I can still re... JASON SUDEIKIS I had been a Maoist, and then when the Gang of Four was overthrown, I was completely distraught. I w... NORMAN FINKELSTEIN When I went to Broadway in the mid-sixties, everybody was trying to emulate Al Pacino and Robert De ... JOHN DAVIDSON I cried my eyes out. That was typical Derek. He stepped up and skated a very good race when he had t... BART SCHOUTEN The first time I got recognized in public was at a movie theater. It was at the 'Lord of the Rin... CONNOR FRANTA I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies be... JENNIFER GARNER Tyson was an interesting experience, just because he was a lot of fun to play, because he was the ty... JOEL RIET Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor... PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON He was an inspiration. It was just so exciting to hear about somebody so young who had suffered so m... CLAUDINE GOLLER I think there's a confidence level with coming home to your own building. I thought the spirit was r... DON MCKEE When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER I wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic... JASON BATEMAN they were all ordinary until they took the extraordinary steps with courage to leave the extraordina... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around.... BRET EASTON ELLIS She had a huge bump, but she wasn't sure what hit her. It swelled up when she was out there. She did... GINA NOLAN 'The Quiet Ones' was my first film, let alone my first horror film, and I had so much fun. I... OLIVIA COOKE After working with Woody Allen, sharing screen space with De Niro was a dream come true. ANUPAM KHER And I'm going to tell the truth: I didn't like that Sean Penn movie Into the Wild so much. MEG CABOT We got together (as a defense) and met and let it be known that the way we played last week was unac... ANTHONY MONTGOMERY He was such a punk when he was a kid, ... It can be hard growing up in front of the public that way,... ETHAN HAWKE I remember when AOL was small and they were growing like mad. Consumers were coming on in droves bec... RAM SHRIRAM You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, w... PETE SEEGER Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next. FAMKE JANSSEN When I reached Vaucouleurs, I easily recognized Robert de Baudricourt, although I had never seen him... JOAN OF ARC It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was ... CALISTA FLOCKHART Working with Dudley Moore was so hilarious. I don't know how we got anything done because everyb... LIZA MINNELLI I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean... LISA GLATT Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman... D. A. PENNEBAKER I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible disci... JOSH LUCAS The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Robert De Niro is stalking somebody again but... BERNIE LINCICOME 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa... JAMES C. DOBSON We called W.W. Schrimsher 'Papa.' He was the tallest guy and he was a character, ... When I was grow... TOM YATES It was a quick move. It shocked us, but he did a heck of a job. When he was out there he played like... LEMAR MARSHALL History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro. JACKIE CHAN He was ready. He was determined. He was the best student I ever had. He was such a learner. And he w... WILLIAM KENNEDY When I was growing up, I used to watch 'Power Rangers' and 'Ninja Turtles.' It seeme... ASHTON EATON I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village. BARRY HANNAH If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi... JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh... A.A. MILNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER I like people like Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins. And Gianfranco Zola, who played for Chelsea a... PHIL DANIELS When I was growing up, kids wouldn't come out to my place because I was too far out in the country. DAVE BLACK It was locked up. Nobody had a key to it, so I had to get a locksmith to come in and unlock it. DAVE ODOM Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like... KEVIN DURANT When I was young, my voice was so strong, and I would annoy people because I had such a loud little ... SKYLAR GREY He was sad because he had grown up, and because the years passed like a river that no man could stop... JAMES T. FARRELL How did I feel as a guy who was making a movie about a single mom who's a crackhead? That - I wa... BARRY JENKINS Johnnie Cochran was such a heroic figure for getting the acquittal of O.J. Simpson, and the acquitta... STERLING K. BROWN There'll be a whole lot of things you ain't gonna want to do, but you'll have to do in this life jus... MILDRED D. TAYLOR I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you ... MIKE WALLACE It was such a relief to know that war was over, that peace had come. JAMES STARNES I felt like somebody had a vice and was squeezing it on my head. MING CHIN I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me u... MAGIC JOHNSON The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS If there was one thing that I took away, it was paying attention to every single solitary detail, no... AHMED BEST I was just so excited! It was such a relief. It had been such a long time coming. BRENNA MOSER My business partner Robert De Niro knows a lot about hotels; he opened the Greenwich Hotel in New Yo... NOBU MATSUHISA I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me be... MADONNA CICCONE When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad ha... HEIDI KLUM In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot o... ELYN SAKS Why must we socialize, if we seek independence?
For we achieve such through others
And yet if we ret... XAVIER CLIFF Robert Preston in 'The Last Starfighter' had an aura. It was almost a surreal experience mee... CATHERINE MARY STEWART I have to admit, when I saw [Wallace] come out I knew he was going to give me a good challenge. I kn... JONATHAN MOORE I don't think there's such a thing as an unprovoked shark attack. PETER BENCHLEY When I came into the picture, Ben and his dad had had a lot of together time and did a lot of grown-... BRENDA ROETHLISBERGER By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usual... LEV GROSSMAN What I remember most is that he made the sitting such fun. It was so enjoyable because he had such h... ANTONIA FRASER Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had. VINCENT D'ONOFRIO Growing up, I had a very vivid imagination and Leonardo was like my best imaginary friend that I spo... RUBY ROSE Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a past... GIADA DE LAURENTIIS My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing i... ZACH ROERIG I played his mother, so that was kind of fascinating, ... I met her, she had a small part in the mov... FRANCES MCDORMAND
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