I think, at the end of the day, you have to reduce friction to businesses, ideally to zero, so that more and more entrepreneurs can create more and more jobs with higher and higher disposable income.
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all. - Robert DeNiro
It's a very stressful thing, directing a movie. You have the budget, you have the schedule, you are in certain confines, and you have everybody giving you advice about what to do. - Robert DeNiro
It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them. - Robert DeNiro
I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality. - Robert DeNiro
Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best. You don't want to work with people who don't care or who are acting out some neurotic, crazy thesis on the set. - Robert DeNiro
Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work. - Robert DeNiro
New York is more exciting, I guess, than even Paris or London. New York's the center of something; I don't know what, really - the center of a lot of things. With all its problems and chaos and craziness, it's still a great place to live. I can't see myself living anywhere else. - Robert DeNiro
One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. - Robert DeNiro
One regret I have: I didn't get as much of the family history as I could have for the kids. - Robert DeNiro
Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash. - Robert DeNiro
Somebody steals from me, I'm gonna say you stole. Not talk to him for spitting on the sidewalk. Understand? - Robert DeNiro
The bottom line is if the movie does well, everybody is happy and they forget about what they went through. And if it doesn't, it's 'I told you.' There's one director who I won't mention, who said, 'it's all blood under the bridge.' - Robert DeNiro
The director respects what they've hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what you're doing. - Robert DeNiro
The hardest thing about being famous is that ... in a conversation everybody's agreeing with what you're saying. ... You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear. - Robert DeNiro
There are certain things I am clueless about as far as the new technologies. I see these people in front of these computers all day and I don't know what they are doing - they are doing something, obviously - with Facebook, Instagram and all that. I am aware of it, but basically not in touch. - Robert DeNiro