Robert De Niro Quotes

Feeling a little bit alive is a lot better than just waiting to die.

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• Most actors can't make any kind of living.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Kind
  • Living
  • Most

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Random

• In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • You
  • Film
  • Audience

• In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Opinion
  • Matters
  • Insane

• And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Think
  • Hate
  • Anger

• I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Up
  • God
  • Man

• I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • School
  • Parents
  • Support

• I always think that today is the best day that there's ever been. The song that I'm working on is always the best song I've ever written. The woman I'm looking at is the most incomprehensibly beautiful woman I've ever seen. These dogs that I have now are, by far, the best dogs I've ever had - although, so were the last pair of dogs I had.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Today
  • Song
  • Beautiful

• There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Life
  • Wish
  • Dumb

• I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Lives
  • Girls

• Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Need
  • Architecture
  • Japanese

• The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Men
  • Future

• I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • You
  • Travel
  • Successful

• Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I've done well against the tall guys.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Done
  • Doing
  • Old

• From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.

  

  Ferdinand Buisson
  • War
  • Day
  • Progress

• At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Brain

• AY, screen thy favourite dove, fair child,Ay, screen it if you may,-Yet I misdoubt thy trembling handWill scare the hawk away.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • May

• Women are running companies, serving as the human resource director of companies, and helping employees solve problems. Women are doctors, lawyers, teachers, sales managers, marketers. They handle problems in the workplace by day and manage their families by night.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Women
  • Night
  • Running

• I don't know how I got such an image, but I am not a Casanova. It's an image that I wouldn't have liked for myself.

  

  Arjun Kapoor

• I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Enemy
  • Negro
  • Laboring Class

• Feeling a little bit alive is a lot better than just waiting to die.

  

  Robert De Niro
  • Feeling
  • Die
  • Alive