Robert De Niro movie quotes

“Like a lot of things in life, we laugh because it's funny and we laugh because it's true.”
Robert De Niro - Al Capone

“You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.”
Robert De Niro - Al Capone

“There's three ways to do things, the right way, the wrong way and the way that I do it.”
Robert De Niro

“- Gil Renard: My father started this business.
- Garrity: Look, perfection and principles, they don't belong in business. Not now or then. As a friend of your father's...
- Gil Renard: As a friend of my father - Keep your mouth shut. You know nothing about my father.”

Robert De Niro - Gil Renard
Dan Butler - Garrity

“I have old-fashioned ideas about honour. An eye for an eye... stuff like that.”
Robert De Niro - Louis Cyphre

“- James Conway: You stupid bastard, I can't fuckin' believe you. Now, you're gonna dig the fuckin' thing now. You're gonna dig the hole. You're gonna do it. I got no fuckin' lime. You're gonna do it.
- Tommy DeVito: Who the fuck cares? I'll dig the fuckin' hole. I don't give a fuck. What is it, the first hole I dug? Not the first time I dug a...” (continue)(continue reading)

Robert De Niro - James Conway
Joe Pesci - Tommy DeVito

“- Nick: I don't think about that much with one shot anymore, Mike.
- Michael: You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it's all about. A deer's gotta be taken with one shot.”
Christopher Walken - Nick
Robert De Niro - Michael

“- Father Gabriel: You shouldn't have become a priest.
- Rodrigo Mendoza: But I am a priest, and they need me.
- Father Gabriel: Then help them as a priest! If you die with blood on your hands, Rodrigo, you betray everything we've done. You promised your life to God. And God is love!”

Jeremy Irons - Father Gabriel
Robert De Niro - Rodrigo Mendoza

“- Michael: Nicky, do you remember the trees? Remember all the different ways of the trees? Remember that? Remember? Huh? The mountains? Do you remember all that?
- Nick: One shot?
- Michael: One shot! One shot.
- Nick: Yeah.”
Robert De Niro - Michael
Christopher Walken - Nick

“- Gil Renard: And what I want you to do, Bobby, is I want you to stand up and tell the 50 million viewers that this home run is dedicated to Gil, a true fan. What do you think?
- Bobby Rayburn: I can't believe you're serious.
- Gil Renard: I'm as serious as a heart attack, Bobby.”

Robert De Niro - Gil Renard
Wesley Snipes - Bobby Rayburn

“- Dr. Ben Sobel: You said you were fighting. You were rebelling against his authority. There may have been some unresolved Oedipal conflict.
- Paul Vitti: English.
- Dr. Ben Sobel: Oedipus was a Greek king who killed his father and married his mother.
- Paul Vitti: Fuckin' Greeks.”
Billy Crystal - Dr. Ben Sobel
Robert De Niro - Paul Vitti

“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 De Niro - Sam "Ace" Rothstein

“You asked me how I'm doing. You wanna know how I'm doing? I can't get a job.. All my friends? Gone. I'm being followed by the FBI everywhere I go. I lost my house. I can't even buy my son a bike for Christmas.”

Robert De Niro - David Merrill

“- Noodles: Hey, Maxie. Max! How much money we got put away?
- Max: Why?
- Noodles: Because we're unemployed.
- Max: About a million bucks.
- Carol: Oh, yeah? Where'd you put it?
- Max: In my underwear.
- Carol: I'd have found it there...”
Robert De Niro - Noodles
James Woods - Max
Tuesday Weld - Carol

“- Martha: What do you want for breakfast?
- Megs: Beer.”
Kathy Baker - Martha
Robert De Niro - Megs

- Paul Vitti: You're turning me down?
- Dr. Ben Sobel: When I got into family therapy, this was not the "family" I had in mind.
- Paul Vitti: You, with your schmucky little office in your schmucky little home, you're turning me down? For what, so you can go back and listen to housewives piss and moan about how nobody fucks 'em right anymore?
Robert De Niro - Paul Vitti
Billy Crystal - Dr. Ben Sobel

“- Tobias 'Toby' Wolff: My application forms must've come today and he threw 'em away!
- Dwight Hansen: Hey, I thought I was helping him. Thought I save him some trouble, 'cause he got no chance of gettin' into some fancy prep school.”

Leonardo DiCaprio - Toby
Robert De Niro - Dwight

“- Donald Rimgale: What about the world, Ronald? What would you like to do to the whole world?
- Ronald Bartel: Burn it all.
[laughs]
- Donald Rimgale: See you next year, Ronald.”

Robert De Niro - Donald Rimgale
Donald Sutherland - Ronald Bartel

“- Vincent: What do you want for Christmas?
- Sam: My two front teeth.”
Jean Reno - Vincent
Robert De Niro - Sam

“- Sam: Are you labour or management?
- Vincent: If I were management, I would not offer you a cigarette!”

Robert De Niro - Sam
Jean Reno - Vincent

“- Noodles: Who would've put a penny on you?
- Fat Moe: I'd have put everything I ever had on you.
- Noodles: Yeah, and you would've lost.”
Robert De Niro - Noodles
Larry Rapp - Fat Moe

I grew up in large part thanks to my mother. If she were only here today... I'd say, "Hey, ma, what are you doing here? You've been dead for nine years!".
Robert De Niro - Rupert Pupkin

“- Tracy Lime: What would they do to me if I did tell someone about this?
- Conrad Brean: They could come to your house in the middle of the night and kill you.”

Kirsten Dunst - Tracy Lime
Robert De Niro - Conrad Brean

“- Nick: If you want me to do this, you gotta pay me what's right. It's gotta be that way.
- Max: I always pay you what's right.”
Robert De Niro - Nick Wells
Marlon Brando - Max

“- Lorenzo: Where'd you get this? Your mother found it behind your drawer.
- Calogero (Age 9): It's my savings, Dad.
- Lorenzo: 600 dollars you've been saving? What'd you do, become a brain surgeon overnight, son?”

Robert De Niro - Lorenzo
Francis Capra - Calogero (Age 9)