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Robert De Niro
said
It’s Shakespearean, the whole thing. You’ve got a lunatic saying things that people are trying to dance around. It’s appalling. He wants to be reelected.
— Newsnight, BBC, (May 12, 2020)
Robert De Niro
American actor, director and producer (born 1943)
- Fame77.2
- Momentum1.5
- Global rank#198
Source-basedStable
- Fame77.2
- Momentum1.5
- Global rank#198
- United States rank#92
- Directors rank#34
- Wikipedia463K
Born 1943 · age 83United States
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Two Oscars in six years — the first for speaking Italian as young Vito Corleone, the second for gaining sixty pounds to play boxer Jake LaMotta — established De Niro as the standard by which American screen acting gets measured.
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Born August 17, 1943, De Niro trained at HB Studio, Stella Adler Conservatory, and Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio before breaking through in Mean Streets in 1973. A year later he won Best Supporting Actor for The Godfather Part II, the first male to win for an Italian-language performance. Six years later Raging Bull brought him Best Actor. The run that followed — Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, The King of Comedy, Once Upon a Time in America, Goodfellas, Heat, Casino — built a filmography so dense with classics that six of his films now sit in the National Film Registry. He stretched into comedy…
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Robert De Niro
said
He doesn’t care for those people, and the people who he pretends to care about are the people he has the most disdain for.
— Newsnight, BBC, (May 12, 2020)
Robert De Niro
said
Give him a chance. That’s what I said right after he was elected. Give him a chance. I give everybody the benefit of the doubt. This guy has proven himself to be a total loser.
— The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, CBS, (November 26, 2019)
Robert De Niro
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Even gangsters have morals, and they have ethics. They have a code, and you know when you give somebody your word, it’s your word, because it’s all you have is your word.
— The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, CBS, (November 26, 2019)
Robert De Niro
said
We are in a moment in our lives, in this country, where this guy is like a gangster.
— Reliable Sources, CNN, (September 29, 2019)
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- Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award
- Presidential Medal of Freedom
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