Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 "The whole thing is for younger people who are sexy and youthful." - on acting I am part Italian, I`m not all Italian. I`m part Dutch, I`m part French, I`m part German, I`m part Irish. But my name is Italian and I probably identify more with my Italian side than with my other parts.
I don`t like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.
I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, "There`s no place like New York. It`s the most exciting city in the world now. That`s the way it is. That`s it."
It`s important not to indicate. People don`t try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.
I`ve never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on wether I was to be an actor or a personality.
People treat me with a bit too much reverence. Look at Dustin Hoffman. I always envy the way he can speak and be smart and funny and so on. I just can`t do that.
The talent is in the choices.
There is a mixture of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.
You`ll have time to rest when you`re dead.
Trivia
Had a long term relationship with African-American fashion model Toukie Smith. Smith is the sister of late fashion designer Willi Smith. They have two sons together, twins Aaron Kendrick De Niro and Julian Henry De Niro (b. October 20, 1995).
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Owns residences on the east and west sides of Manhattan as well as near Marbletown, New York.
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Resides in New York City.
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Was considered for the role of Harry in Home Alone (1990).
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Co-owns the Rubicon restaurant in San Francisco with Bay area residents Francis Ford Coppola and Robin Williams. Much of his father`s art work adorns the walls of the business. He also owns a restaurant in West Hollywood, Ago, and co-owns several restaurants in New York, including Nobu and Layla.
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First performer to win an Oscar (for The Godfather: Part II (1974)) for a performance in a sequel.
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Growing up in the Little Italy section of New York City, his nickname was "Bobby Milk" because he was so thin and as pale as milk.
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He and Martin Scorsese were brought up blocks apart in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan, but never formally met when they were young. When introduced at a party in 1972, the two came to realize that they had seen each other many times but had never spoken.
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Is left handed. However, he wrote with his right hand in Taxi Driver (1976).
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Limo drivers in Los Angeles joke about his less than generous tips by referring to him as "No Dinero".
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Rarely does interviews and is known as one of the most ultra-private celebrities.
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Shares a birthday with friend and sometime-co-star Sean Penn.
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Studied at Actors Studio with Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg.
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Very good friends with fellow actor and frequent co-star, Joe Pesci.
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According to a profile in Vanity Fair`s annual Hollywood issue, is the first actor to do a method interpretation of a cartoon character as Fearless Leader in The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000).
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He started the whole "awards show ribbon" tradition by wearing a green ribbon on his lapel at the 1981 Academy Awards. The ribbon was in rememberance of several African-American children who were victims of a serial killer in Atlanta, Georgia in 1980-1981. The ribbon was given to him by a fan in the bleachers as he arrived; the victims` families had been wearing them for months.
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His boyhood idols among actors included Montgomery Clift, Robert Mitchum and Marlon Brando. He preferred the darker, more character-driven work of these men to the older stars of Hollywood, for whom their public persona as a star was more important than their immersion into the character.
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His father, after Robert was born, came out of the closet as a homosexual and eventually divorced Robert`s mother.
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His mother, despite being raised Presbyterian, was an atheist for most of Robert`s childhood. His father was raised Catholic but was not religious in any way.
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In the Egyptian film Medina, El (1999), the main actor Ali has a duck that he named De Niro after his favorite actor.
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Was good friends with comedian John Belushi, who died of a drug overdose on March 5, 1982. In fact, De Niro and Robin Williams were the last stars to see Belushi alive.
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Was in Ossining, New York (home of the infamous Sing Sing penitentiary) to shoot three different movies: Analyze This (1999), Analyze That (2002) and Hide and Seek (2005).
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Was unable to accept his first Oscar in 1975 due to filming commitments to Bernardo Bertolucci`s Novecento (1976).
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Was voted the Number 2 greatest movie star of all time in a Channel 4 (UK) poll, narrowly being beaten by Al Pacino.
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British pop group Bananarama had a hit song dedicated to him called "Robert De Niro`s Waiting." De Niro heard about it and arranged to meet the three girls, but they got so nervous, while waiting for him, that they got drunk before he even arrived.
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Diagnosed with prostate cancer, and expected to make a full recovery (October 2003).
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Has said that Meryl Streep is his favorite actress to work with.
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He first discovered his love for acting at age 10 when he portrayed The Cowardly Lion in a local production of "The Wizard of Oz." He dropped out of high school to join a gang.
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He is the second actor to win an Oscar for portraying Vito Corleone. He and Marlon Brando are the only two actors to win an Oscar for playing the same character.
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He organised the first Tribeca Film Festival in May 2002. He intended to revitalise the Lower Manhattan area after September 11th attacks.
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He was voted as the best actor of all time at FilmFour.com (2002).
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In 1993 he was tapped to star as Enzo Ferrari in the film "Ferrari", which was budgeted at $65 million (U.S.) and had Michael Mann attached as director. The project fell through.
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Spent four months learning to speak the Sicilian dialect in order to play Vito Corleone in The Godfather: Part II (1974). Nearly all the dialogue that his character spoke in the movie was in Sicilian.
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When he was a child, he was an avid reader of playwrights.
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After being caught up in a Paris prostitution ring investigation, he, denying any involvement, vowed never to return to France again (1998).
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Although he is commonly referred to as an Italian-American actor, De Niro is actually one-quarter Italian in ancestry. His father was half-Irish and half- Italian. His mother was of French, Dutch and German ancestry. He was, however, quite close to his Italian paternal grandfather, whom Robert visited frequently in Syracuse, NY when he was young. De Niro has stated that he identifies "more with [his] Italian side".
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Drena De Niro is his daughter through adoption, being Diahnne Abbott`s daughter from a previous marriage.
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Father of actor Raphael De Niro.
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He formed his production company, TriBeCa Productions, in 1989.
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His wife Grace Hightower gave birth to their son, Elliot De Niro, on March 18, 1998.
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In his 1980 Oscar acceptance speech he thanked Joey LaMotta (brother of Jake LaMotta), who was at the time suing United Artists for the portrayal of him in Raging Bull (1980).
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Son of Robert De Niro Sr., an abstract expressionist, and Virginia Admiral, a painter.
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Spouse: Grace Hightower (17 June 1997 - present) 1 child; Diahnne Abbott (1976 - 1988) (divorced) 1 child
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Was offered but turned down the role of Sal the pizza shop owner in Do the Right Thing (1989).
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