Robert De Niro is an American/Italian actor and producer;

At 73 years old, he’s had an incredibly successful career, and starred in a ridiculous number of films. Far too many to list, but here’s a few of the highlights:

• The Godfather Part II
• Silver Linings
• Analyze This
• The Intern
• Casino
• Meet the Fockers
• Goodfellas
• Grudge Match

We’ve put together this small, yet inspirational collection of the best Robert De Niro quotes:

25 Inspirational Robert De Niro Quotes

1. “You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.” – Robert De Niro

2. “The talent is in the choices.” – Robert De Niro

3. “One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people’s lives without having to pay the price.” – Robert De Niro

4. “You’ll have time to rest when you’re dead.” – Robert De Niro

5. “I love to find new people. It’s not for the sake of their being new; it’s because if you find someone who perfectly fits a part, that’s such a great thing.” – Robert De Niro

6. “It’s important not to indicate. People don’t try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.” – Robert De Niro

7. “Time goes on. So whatever you’re going to do, do it. Do it now. Don’t wait.” – Robert De Niro

8. “Money makes your life easier. If you’re lucky to have it, you’re lucky.” – Robert De Niro

9. “The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.” – Robert De Niro

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“There’s nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.” – Robert De Niro

11. “I didn’t have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you’re rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You’re behind the eight ball when you go in there.” – Robert De Niro

12. “In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.” – Robert De Niro

13. “I think it’s important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.” – Robert De Niro

14. “I don’t like to watch my own movies – I fall asleep in my own movies.” – Robert De Niro

15. “I don’t get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character – do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day, what you gotta do is just go out there and do it.” – Robert De Niro

16. “With ‘Silver Linings,’ I didn’t feel – I was thinking of certain things, but I just said, ‘Let me go with it.’ You have to know what you’re doing, where you’re going with the scenes, and I put a lot of work into that. But when you’re out there, at the same time you gotta be ready for anything.” – Robert De Niro

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17. “Don’t be afraid to do what your instincts tell you.” – Robert De Niro

18. “You discovered a talent, developed an ambition and recognized your passion. When you feel that, you can’t fight it — you just go with it.” – Robert De Niro

19. “Life rarely changes you totally but it consistently changes you in details.” – Robert De Niro

20. “I don’t feel pressure. I like if anybody has interest in what I have to say, especially if they’re younger. If they like me, respect me, I’m honoured and I’ll give them my opinion.” – Robert De Niro

21. “I am also not one for regrets. I don’t regret any film I’ve made, because there was a reason for making it at the time. If it hasn’t worked out, then don’t spend time worrying about why and how. Just move on to the next project.” – Robert De Niro

22. “Being able to battle it out. No matter how you do it, you gotta hold your ground at times. Other times you’ve got to compromise. But never a compromise that you can’t live with.” – Robert De Niro

23. “If it’s the right chair, it doesn’t take too long to get comfortable in it.” – Robert De Niro

24. “Rejection might sting, but my feeling is that often, it has very little to do with you.” – Robert De Niro

25. “You’re not responsible for the entire job, but your part in it… You will put your everything into everything you do.” – Robert De Niro

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Tom Hardy is one of my favorite actors of all time. Some of the roles he plays show exactly how hard he works as a performer. Here’s a quick list of some of the popular films he’s starred in:

• Legend
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Revenant
• Warriors

We’ve put together this incredible collection of the best Tom Hardy quotes of all time:

55 Admirable Tom Hardy Quotes

1. “A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don’t feel it. I feel intrinsically feminine. I’d love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside. Maybe my masculine qualities come from overcompensating because I’m not one of the boys.” – Tom Hardy

2. “I don’t fight really. I try not to fight, actually. I try not to react. I’m a Buddha floating on a lily pad.” – Tom Hardy

3. “I had no immediate knowledge of the world or Batman at all. I’m quite incubated. I just keep myself to myself and my dog.” – Tom Hardy

4. “I think I had only been working nine months when I got ‘Star Trek,’ and it was huge. It was very overwhelming. So that opened my eyes a bit at an early age, kind of how not be frightened when walking into a responsibility of something like that.” – Tom Hardy

5. “I’d learned how to lie and manipulate from an early age so a combination of that, desperation, having to have my own fridge and my umbilical cord back…I had to go out into the world. Then some angel somewhere said: “Have you considered going to drama school?” And this sounded like the solution to all of my problems.” – Tom Hardy

6. “I’m not interested in walks in the parks. Anything difficult that people think I couldn’t play, I’m straight at it. If they say ‘Tom, don’t put your hand in the fire’, you know I’ll be coming out of casualty an hour later with third-degree burns and bandages up my arms.” – Tom Hardy

7. “It’s funny in that because it is acting, and playing pretend, but I didn’t see myself being synonymous with these tough-guy roles. That’s not really me. I love acting. There was Bane, Warrior, Bronson, and now the Krays. I’m just surprised to be working, mate. Whatever gets me through the door.” – Tom Hardy

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8. “Spirituality seems to me to be for those who’ve been through hell.” – Tom Hardy

9. “There’s two types of acting: convincing and not convincing. People describe me as intense. It’s because I care. I am a pain in the ass because I care. Do I know what I’m doing? No. Do I have the best of intentions? Yes. Does that lead to hell? Sometimes.” – Tom Hardy

10. “You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.” – Tom Hardy

11. “And I like people. I like to know what you’re really up to. I’m a bit of a nosey busybody. Why do they do the things they do? Why are they prepared to do the things they do to get what they want? When? Where? Who?” – Tom Hardy

12. “I don’t like it when people say, “Well, you should have expected that when you accepted the jb as an actor. When you go to drama school, no one gives you a class on fame. Just treat people how you wish to be treated. Whether I’m married or not married, people will find out. But it’s also not something I’m going to offer.” – Tom Hardy

13. “I hate publicists and publicity. But I love people.” – Tom Hardy

14. “I think it’s important that you always transform if you can. That’s what I was trained to do. You try and hide yourself as much as you can – that’s the key to longevity.“ – Tom Hardy

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15. “I’m from a nice, suburban, idle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I’ve been.” – Tom Hardy

16. “I’m very sensitive. Because my mum was my primary emotional caregiver growing up, I found myself being pinned into dresses, darting her dresses, choosing her high heels for the evening or what to wear. I’m very much a mommy’s boy” – Tom Hardy

17. “My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler’s avenue. So I had to go further afield and I brought all kinds of unscrupulous oiks back home – earless, toothless vagabonds – to teach me the arts of the old bagarre.” – Tom Hardy

18. “Thanks for all the wonderful paintings and drawings and writings. I am very honoured to have your support, and love you for the energy and the inspiring work and comments that you bring to the table.” – Tom Hardy

19. “Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of ten, that says more about them than you.” – Tom Hardy

20. “As actors, we have the opportunity to work with many directors. Directors only work with themselves and other actors. They never know what it is like to work with another director. So that relationship that one has with a director is entirely always the king.” – Tom Hardy

21. “I find crying difficult. It takes a long time for me to go. And I won’t know what will send me. I’m quite sentimental. If my son tells me he loves me that will make me cry. Mr. Holland’s Opus, unbelievably, broke me. A random anomaly. Bambi would probably do me.” – Tom Hardy

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22. “I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.” – Tom Hardy

23. “I want to dispel that it’s all about celebrity-ism, I’m fucking bored of people looking at whose shoes are interesting and what hat is interesting. Storytelling is very important to people, it comforts them, unite us, cheers us up, we can affect change with these arts. We need to be entertained to connect.” – Tom Hardy

24. “I’m from East Sheen, I went to public school where I learned Latin at the age of nine, and certain expectations were made of me to go to St. Paul’s, Oxbridge maybe, and all that kind of thing. And I failed systematically to meet the mark – who I am and what I should have been are two very different things.” – Tom Hardy

25. “In the end there was nothing else I could do. I had a busy head and I didn’t really want to do things that I found boring. The only thing that kept my attention was to play and have fun and manipulate. I’ve always been a liar, always been able to manipulate. I pretty much get whatever I want.” – Tom Hardy

26. “My job is to show and tell. If I get better at showing and telling then presumably I get hired more.” – Tom Hardy

27. “The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can.” – Tom Hardy

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28. “We are survivors. We control the fear. And without the fear, we are all as good as dead.” – Tom Hardy

29. “Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we’re all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I’m really grateful for it, I don’t believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?” – Tom Hardy

30. “I get hired more then I get seen more. I get seen more then maybe celebrity and fame happens but at the end of the day there’s no difference between my five dollar performance and my fifty million dollar performance.”  – Tom Hardy

31. “I identify with having strong, powerful female influences in my life. Do you think that women are fairly represented in screenplays, film, TV, and theatre today? Or do you think there should be better parts for women than just girlfriend and wife or lover? Because I’m bored with that.” – Tom Hardy

32. “I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn’t anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.” – Tom Hardy

33. “I’m going to fail to hit the mark I’ve put up before me because it’s not possible to hit it. I want to be the best at what I do so I’ve got to get over myself already because that’s never going to happen. I ain’t ever going to be God.” – Tom Hardy

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34. “It doesn’t matter who you are. What matters is your plan.” – Tom Hardy

35. “No matter how much you can prepare for [auditions], there’s nothing worse than the anticipation. It’s always the killer of everything. The actuality of doing something is normally a lot easier than the waiting for it.” – Tom Hardy

36. “There’s a long way to go on that, but I do believe that the time is now.” – Tom Hardy

37. “We’re all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.” – Tom Hardy

38. “I didn’t understand how you could do something which is so much fun and be so miserable doing it.” – Tom Hardy

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39. “I guess if I had fifty million dollars I could spend more time at home…” – Tom Hardy

40. “I mean there I was. One moment in Wandsworth Police Station on the way to Wormwood Scrubs, looking at 14 years, to this!” – Tom Hardy

41. “I was ashamed of not having any relevance… not being comfortable in my own skin. Huge ego, very low self-esteem. A lot of anger and rage and fear. It would be, ‘I’m not going to feel frightened so I’ll strangle the biggest guy in the bar and then no one will f**k with me’. I’ll get tattoos and people will know I’m not afraid to hurt myself and they’ll be like warning signs.” – Tom Hardy

42. “I’m here to challenge myself and to see whether I can shape-shift in an environment that’s actually quite daunting, but which I think would be nice to shine a light into. The destination of any interesting drama is that you shine a light into a place that not many people know about.” – Tom Hardy

43. “It is not the violence that sets a man apart, it is the distance he is prepared to go.” – Tom Hardy

44. “Responsibility has a cost, and there’s no such thing as a perfection.” – Tom Hardy

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45. “There’s always a certain pride in getting a job done properly.” – Tom Hardy

46. “When I was nine, I ran in a school race, and I suddenly realized I was in the lead. I looked at the finish line, and just freaked out, then ran to the side as if I’d hurt myself. It was everything to do with the fear of success.” – Tom Hardy

47. “I don’t feel very manly. I don’t feel rugged and strong and capable in real life, not how I imagine a man ought to be. So I seek it, to mimic it and maybe understand it, or maybe to draw it into my own reality. People who are scary, they terrify me, but I can imitate them. I’m not a fighter. I’m a petite little bourgeois boy from London. I don’t fight, I mimic.” – Tom Hardy

48. “I had a huge imagination. My granddad says I was a bit of a Walter Mitty character.” – Tom Hardy

49. “I play Xbox. I have a little boy to look after. I have dogs. You know, I have things to do. I would love to be able to sit down and watch something like a movie. I watch my own movies because I have to.” – Tom Hardy

50. “I went entirely off the rails and I’m lucky I didn’t have some terrible accident or end up in prison or dead, because that’s where I was going. Now I know my beast and I know how to manage it. It’s like living with a 400 pound orangutan that wants to kill me. It’s much more powerful than me, doesn’t speak the same language and it runs around the darkness of my soul.” – Tom Hardy

51. “I’m never lost in a character, ever. Everything is absolutely articulated and worked out and there’s no room for error. The only thing there is room for is inspiration in the moment because you’ve done your homework up to that point….” – Tom Hardy

52. “It was always in the cards for Michael. It was always in the cards for him. I’m not surprised about him at all, because he was awesome. Me, I don’t know how I got here! I feel like I just came from delivering pizza and I got lucky.” – Tom Hardy

53. “So, somewhere between that acceptance and doing my homework and being competitive and having ambition and loving my job and observing and reflecting my society, that’s where I find the purpose. Because man needs purpose.” – Tom Hardy

54. “There’s no feeling of, ‘I’ve got to be the best in the world.’ I’m going to be the best I can. I tell myself, it’s only storytelling and it’s going to be OK and you love doing this. Pick any one of the reasons to do it and, for the next five minutes, enjoy that.” It’s one thing being on top, but knowing what to do while you’re there is something else. Do you milk it for everything it’s worth or try to be choosy in order to gain some longevity?” – Tom Hardy

55. “Within the creative arts you can create things and destroy things. Passion creates and destroys.” – Tom Hardy

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Which are your favorite Rob Dyrdek quotes?

Rob Dyrdek is an American entrepreneur, actor, reality TV personality, producer, and former professional skateboarder. He was labeled as one of the ‘most influential skateboarders of all-time’ by ‘FoxWeekly’.

Dyrdek is well known for his appearances in the reality shows ‘Rob & Big’, ‘Rob Dyrdek‘s Fantasy Factory’, and ‘Ridiculousness’. He has set 21 individual “Guinness Book of World Records”. 

Here’s our collection of the best Rob Dyrdek quotes:

55 of the Best Rob Dyrdek Quotes

1. “I don’t think I’ve ever had a vacation, to be quite honest with you.” – Rob Dyrdek

2. “No one can fathom that the top 200 pro street skaters run from cops on the weekends and use a generator and lights to light up a handrail at 2 in the morning to get a trick that’s going to be in an advertisement that will be shown around the world.” – Rob Dyrdek

3. “The way skateboarding contests were in the past was like going to a basketball game and being told at the end of the game what the score was and who won. Think about how unengaging that would be if you didn’t know who was ahead or if it was a close game.” – Rob Dyrdek

4. “Once you get a trick on film, it’s there forever.” – Rob Dyrdek

5. “As skateboarding evolved, it evolved away from competition. Having a best-trick contest doesn’t work.” – Rob Dyrdek

6. “Sometimes I’ll be somewhere, and the cops will show up to kick me out and end up just asking for a photo.” – Rob Dyrdek

7. “As a professional skateboarder, I can’t look at anyone getting hurt – it freaks me out.” – Rob Dyrdek

8. “There’s nothing more ridiculous than seeing yourself in a video game.” – Rob Dyrdek

9. “If I liked an idea, even slightly, I would throw some money at it. I’ve had a lot of random things not work out that people don’t know about.” – Rob Dyrdek

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10. “There is nothing like watching a crazy video for the very first time.” – Rob Dyrdek

 

11. “I live a pretty balanced life. As hard as I do work & as many things that I do… I take a lot of time to stay physically strong. I really just try to get the proper rest. I don’t run myself into the ground.” – Rob Dyrdek

12. “No matter what I do, how much money I make, where I live, or what kind of car I drive, the stuff I skateboard on is the same stuff that every other kid in L.A., every kid in the country, everybody in the world is skateboarding on.” – Rob Dyrdek

13. “Skateboarding has given me everything I have and created who I am.” – Rob Dyrdek

14. “Learning a [skateboard] trick is kind of like a puzzle; you have to keep trying, and trying, and trying, and adapting and changing, and adapting and changing, and finally it works.” – Rob Dyrdek

15. “Take this wealth and this fame, always stay humble, keep your family close, and do ridiculously crazy things.” – Rob Dyrdek

16. “MTV has a been a great partner over the years. I’m truly grateful for the platform they’ve provided for me to create and refine compelling, entertaining media at the highest level.” – Rob Dyrdek

17. “I’ve got some alien blood in me.” – Rob Dyrdek

18. “Anything is possible if you’re willing to work for it.” – Rob Dyrdek

19. “Everything in life is a fantasy until you choose to make it reality.” – Rob Dyrdek

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20. “In skateboarding, you’re never bigger than the streets.” – Rob Dyrdek

 

21. “Never undervalue the idea of partners. Understanding your strengths and then going out trying to find like-minded people who will be another pillar of your success.” – Rob Dyrdek

22. “DC and Monster have always supported my vision for street skateboarding, from building skate plazas throughout the world to now creating the first-ever professional skateboarding league.” – Rob Dyrdek

23. “If my parents really understood how much I’ve learned that I could never learn in school, they’d be very proud. Instead, I’m still their crazy kid, sagging his pants and dancing around on the laptop.” – Rob Dyrdek

24. “I quit high school to be a pro skateboarder out of Ohio, which is just asinine, but it was meant to be.” – Rob Dyrdek

25. “You’re better off owning 30 percent and having two amazing partners who compliment you and are equally as driven as you are than having 100 percent and only having one aspect of it unless you’re a super genius who is creative and business-minded at the same time.” – Rob Dyrdek

26. “One of the best things to me about ‘Skate’ is that if you play this game from beginning to end, you just got a complete education on what skateboarding is.” – Rob Dyrdek

27. “In Ohio, I built the world’s first skate plaza.” – Rob Dyrdek

28. “My gift is execution; when I decide I’m going to do something, I’ll stop at nothing to do it. Along the way, you take a lot of risks and go for it, but you have to believe in it. You gotta believe in your idea, and lucky for me, I found a lot of success in that.” – Rob Dyrdek

29. “Skateboarding for me is a whole lot different for me than before the TV fame, if you will because going out in the street is a little bit different.” – Rob Dyrdek

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30. “The evolution of the plaza always came from the idea of just a really good place to ride a skateboard that you could ride at any time, and that’s what the foundation always stands for – being a place that’s free, open and legal… for those that are technical, to do really hard stuff, and for those who are learning, to just have fun.” – Rob Dyrdek

 

31. “I try to seize every opportunity I can.” – Rob Dyrdek

32. “In all aspects of life, it’s always much funner when you surround yourself with people you enjoy being around.” – Rob Dyrdek

33. “I am truly blessed to have been a part of the MTV family for so long.” – Rob Dyrdek

34. “The reality of professional skateboarding contests is that they’re not relevant in our world.” – Rob Dyrdek

35. “With success comes responsibility of playing your part, to do what you can to help not only those that helped you get to where you’re at but the future of who’s going to be playing a part of your business and everything you do in your entire career.” – Rob Dyrdek

36. “Without a doubt, Dana White is my biggest influence.” – Rob Dyrdek

37. “I started my first company when I was 18 and learned by trial through fire, having no formal education or entrepreneurial experience.” – Rob Dyrdek

38. “I was raised by some very grounded, hardworking, Middle America parents.” – Rob Dyrdek

39. “With ‘Fantasy Factory,’ I want to take skating beyond the Tony Hawk generation and represent the street-skating generation.” – Rob Dyrdek

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40. “In life, some people trip and some fall but some take that trip and make a beautiful dance out of it.” – Rob Dyrdek

 

41. “The serious professional skateboarder doesn’t have a job. They get paid enough not to.” – Rob Dyrdek

42. “At most contests now, skaters are judged against themselves.” – Rob Dyrdek

43. “I spend 2 hours a week in an infrared sauna.” – Rob Dyrdek

44. “For me, part of one my big movements is building authentic street environments for skateboarding.” – Rob Dyrdek

45. “I had to learn the hard way. There was a blindness, without any education or will or drive. Everything I started in the beginning from skate shops to record labels to a million and one side hustles that I went in without knowing how I was going to do it, a lot of those ventures just went out of business.” – Rob Dyrdek

46. “I built a very methodical television show around my business. I learned how to use television as a platform to advertise products. I created a platform showcasing the stuff that I build. It’s taking the integration model to another level.” – Rob Dyrdek

47. “As I’ve evolved, I’m capable of doing a lot of things at once, but really, as an entrepreneur and business person, it’s more about adding the right structure to be able to handle scaling all those things as opposed to being at the forefront of doing a lot of them.” – Rob Dyrdek

48. “My entire life is a single body of work.” – Rob Dyrdek

49. “California just does not remotely embrace the fact that it’s where skateboarding itself was birthed and where 90% of the industry is.” – Rob Dyrdek

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50. “Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history.” – Rob Dyrdek

 

51. “I operate best on big vision and creative detail.” – Rob Dyrdek

52. “Sure things are going to get sketchy, but when your having the time of your life whats sketchy?” – Rob Dyrdek

53. “Justin Bieber, I love to death. He’s such a cool, ridiculous, much crazier kid in real life – more than he’s really allowed to be because he’s a Unicorn and very rare.” – Rob Dyrdek

54. “There are some key elements to business being a success, and that’s a smart visionary and great management behind the people that are going to build it.” – Rob Dyrdek

55. “Half of my success is my fearlessness and recklessness – of just seeing the end and not stopping until you get there.” – Rob Dyrdek

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