Robert De Niro movie quotes

“If I can't get it up, that makes me less of a man, and I can't have that. In my world I deal with animals. They may seem dumb to an educated guy like you, but make no mistake. Animals are very cunning, and they sense weakness.”

Robert De Niro - Paul Vitti

“- Michael: Hey, Nick, do you think we'll ever come back?
- Nick: From Vietnam?
- Michael: Yeah.
- Nick: You know something, the whole thing, it's right here. I love this fucking place. I know that sounds crazy. If anything happens, Mike, don't leave, don't leave me over there. You got, you've got to, hey, just don't leave me. You've got to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert De Niro - Michael
Christopher Walken - Nick

“I'm not interested in friends from those places, and I don't trust politicians!”
Robert De Niro - Noodles

“- Jules: I don't want to be buried alone. Paige'll be with her husband, and Matt'll be with his new family, and I will be buried with strangers. I'll be buried in the strangers singles section of the cemetery.
- Ben: Let's take that one off your plate right now. You can be buried with me and Molly. I happen to have space, okay?”

Anne Hathaway - Jules
Robert De Niro - Ben

“- Rusty: I'm an artist, you know?
- Walt Koontz: Bullshit. You're a fucking drag queen.
- Rusty: Let me savour those lovely words for a moment. What are you, channeling Jesse Helms?
- Walt Koontz: Don't be so sensitive. You can take a dick, you can take an insult.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Rusty
Robert De Niro - Walt Koontz

“1957 was a big year. The Russians put that Sputnik into outer space, the Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field to say goodbye to Brooklyn, that guy shot Frank Costello in the head, and missed, and the Gallo brothers whacked Albert Anastasia in the barber shop of the Sheraton View hotel. It was total chaos.”
Robert De Niro - Paul Vitti

“- Gil Renard: Can I just say something? Did you ever think how one man who's doing well... might throw off the rest of the team? What I'm saying is, like, you have to think what's best for the team, right? You might have to lay down a sacrifice. I'm talking about Bobby Rayburn's number. I don't know if you really understand how much he needs...” (continue)(continue reading)

Robert De Niro - Gil Renard
Benicio del Toro - Juan Primo

A neighbor of mine says, "Looking for nice churches, come to Concrete. Looking for sin, go to Hell".
Robert De Niro - Dwight

“- Jake La Motta: Come on, hit me. Harder. Harder.
- Joey LaMotta: What the fuck do you want? That's hard. What are you trying to prove?”
Robert De Niro - Jake La Motta
Joe Pesci - Joey

“- Young John: Hey, uh, Father. How long did it take him? You know, paintin' the ceiling and all?
- Father Bobby: Took him about nine years.
- Young John: Nine years?
- Father Bobby: That's right.
- Young John: For a ceiling? I had a Puerto Rican guy do my whole apartment in two days... and he had a bum leg.”

Geoffrey Wigdor - Young John
Robert De Niro - Father Bobby

“Any more of these demos and I'm gonna have to start shaving the hair off my ass.”

Robert De Niro - Gil Renard

“- Jake La Motta: Don't give me that look, Joey. I gotta accept your answer, you know? But If I hear anything, I swear on our mother I'm gonna kill somebody. I'm gonna kill somebody, Joey.
- Joey LaMotta: Well go ahead and kill if you're a tough guy, go kill people! Kill Vicki, kill Salvy, kill Tommy Como, kill me while you're at it, what do I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert De Niro - Jake La Motta
Joe Pesci - Joey

“Distrust is a disease that kills a friendship.”
Robert De Niro - Dragna

“I know you got every right to hate me. And I don't blame you. But I need you now. I need you in my corner. You're the best person for me.”

Robert De Niro - Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen

“A guy can get anything he wants as long as he pays the price.”
Robert De Niro - Rupert Pupkin

“Either you're part of the problem or you're part of the solution or you're just part of the landscape.”
Robert De Niro - Sam

- Greg Focker: Who would've thought it wasn't really about a dragon, huh?
- Jack Byrnes: What do you mean?
- Greg Focker: You know, the whole drug thing?
- Jack Byrnes: No, I don't know. Why don't you tell me?
- Greg Focker: Some people think that to "Puff the Magic Dragon" means to... they're really, uh... to smoke... to smoke... a marijuana... (continue)(continue reading)

Ben Stiller - Greg Focker
Robert De Niro - Jack Byrnes

“- Trey: Sorry you lost, Kid.
- Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen: That's all right, Trey. Call me Grandad.”
Camden Gray - Trey
Robert De Niro - Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen

“- Master Chief Billy Sunday: What the hell did he ever say to make you try so hard?
- Chief Carl Brashear: Be the best.
- Master Chief Billy Sunday: Well, you are.”

Robert De Niro - Master Chief Billy Sunday
Cuba Gooding Jr. - Chief Carl Brashear

“If you give me a job, I'll always see it through.”
Robert De Niro - Fred Blake

- Sam "Ace" Rothstein: From now on, I want you to put an equal amount of blueberries in each muffin... an equal amount of blueberries in each muffin.
- Baker: Do you know how long that's going to take?
- Sam "Ace" Rothstein: I don't care how long it takes. Put an equal amount in each muffin.

Robert De Niro - Sam "Ace" Rothstein
Jack Orend - Baker

“Can I give you a little bit of advice, Jack? If you took one-tenth of the time you spend on killing people and devoted it to reading a book now and then, I really think you would derive great benefit. Don't you?”
Robert De Niro - Dragna

“This is the end result of all the bright lights, and the comp trips, and all the champagne, and free hotel suites, and all the broads and all the booze. It's all been arranged just for us to get your money.”
Robert De Niro - Sam "Ace" Rothstein

“You want my advice? Make a list of everything you want now and spend the next twenty-five years getting it, slowly, piece by piece.”

Robert De Niro - Nick Wells

“Knowing what you're worth is like knowing what day you're gonna die.”
Robert De Niro - Fred Blake