Robert De Niro quotes
- From the movie: Cape Fear
“It's not necessary to lay a foul tongue on me my friend. I could get upset. Things could get out of hand. Then in self defense, I could do something to you that you would not like, right here.”
- From the movie: The Fan
- From the movie: Ronin
“- Spence: You worried about saving your own skin?
- Sam: I am. It covers my body.” - From the movie: The Fan
“Don't get greedy. What we need now is a sacrifice. A winning team has to know how to manufacture runs.”
- From the movie: Analyze This
“- Dr. Ben Sobel: What happened with your wife last night?
- Paul Vitti: I wasn't with my wife, I was with my girlfriend.
- Dr. Ben Sobel: Are you having marriage problems?
- Paul Vitti: No.” - From the movie: Goodfellas
- From the movie: Once Upon a Time in America
“- Noodles: What is it?
- Max: It's a throne. It was a gift to a pope. It cost me about 800 bucks.
- Carol: It's from the 17th century.
- Noodles: What are you going to do with it?
- Max: I'm sitting on it.” - From the movie: Flawless
- Leonard Wilcox: Do you know the phrase, "two closed ears and one closed mouth"? Well, that's my motto and I follow it. To hear noting. To See nothing. To speak nothing.
- Walt Koontz: Eh, I don't care what goes on in this rat-trap. Who do you think you're kidding, you got the biggest ears, the biggest nose, and the biggest mouth of anybody I... (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Analyze That
“- Ben Sobel: We don't think it's necessary to wake the neighbors every time we have sex.
- Paul Vitti: If you're quiet, you could do it without even waking your wife.” - From the movie: The Good Shepherd
“I'll be looking for patriotic, honorable, bright young men from the right backgrounds to manage the various departments. In other words, no Jews or Negroes, and very few Catholics, and that's only because I'm a Catholic.”
- From the movie: Once Upon a Time in America
“- Carol: Hit me!
- Noodles: What, are you crazy?” - From the movie: Wag the Dog
“- Conrad Brean: If Kissinger can win the Peace Prize, I wouldn't be surprised to wake up and find out I'd won the Preakness.
- Stanley Motss: Yes but, our guy did bring peace.
- Conrad Brean: But there wasn't a war.
- Stanley Motss: All the greater accomplishment.” - From the movie: Once Upon a Time in America
“- Noodles: It's true I have killed people, Mr. Bailey. Sometimes to defend myself, sometimes for money. And many people used to come to us. Business partners, rivals, lovers. Some of the jobs we took, and some we didn't. Yours is one we would never touch, Mr Bailey.
- Max: Is this your idea of revenge?
- Noodles: No. It's just the way I see things.” - From the movie: Meet The Parents
- From the movie: This Boy's Life
“You can get it doggy-style or you can get it laying on your side. Those are your only choices. This is my house and I get to say. Got it?”
- From the movie: Heat
“- Lt. Vincent Hanna: So you never wanted a regular type life?
- Neil McCauley: What the fuck is that? Barbeques and ballgames?” - From the movie: Meet The Parents
“- Jack Byrnes: I'm a realist. I understand it's the 21st century and you've probably had premarital relations with my daughter. But under our roof, it's my way or the Long Island Expressway. Is that understood?
- Greg Focker: Of course, yeah.
- Jack Byrnes: Good. Keep your snake in its cage for 72 hours.” - From the movie: Meet the Fockers
“- Jack Byrnes: We use the Ferber method.
- Bernie Focker: We use the Focker method. We hugged and kissed that little boy like there was no tomorrow. We Fockerized him.” - From the movie: The Fan
“- Gil Renard: Bobby Rayburn is in for the night of his life.
- Jewel Stern: Why's that, Gil?
- Gil Renard: 'Cause some people are ungrateful, and they should be taught a lesson.” - From the movie: The Good Shepherd
- From the movie: Wag the Dog
You said "Go to war to protect your way of life". This is your way of life. Isn't it? And if there ain't no war, then you, my friend, can go home and prematurely take up golf. Because there ain't no war but ours.
- From the movie: Once Upon a Time in America
- From the movie: Raging Bull
“- Joey LaMotta: She ain't the kind of girl you just fuck and forget about, this girl.
- Jake La Motta: Joey, how many times I gotta tell ya? Why're you always cursin' when I'm talkin' to you? Don't do it around me. Do it around your friends.” - From the animation: Shark Tale
- Don Lino: I tell you what's what, and what?
- Sykes: What?
- Don Lino: What what?
- Sykes: What what nothig. You said “what” first.
- Don Lino: I didn't say “what” first.
- Sykes: You said "and then what?” and I said "what?”.
- Don Lino: No, I said "What, what?" as in "What, what?”.
[pause]
- Sykes: ...You said “what” first. - From the movie: This Boy's Life
“I know a thing or two about a thing or two!”
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