Robert De Niro Quotes

If I'm doing something, I tend to do it in a concentrated way.

When I'm working, I'm obsessively working.

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.

I just kind of do my thing with sort of tunnel vision for the story and my role and how it fits together.

If I'm doing a job, I'll give it 100%, and that job gets my absolute focus, and everything else goes to the side. Then, that job is finished, I'll concentrate on the next job.

I have fun when it's the right time to have fun, but when I lock in for practice and matches, I'm not worried about fun.

Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

When I'm doing something, I do work hard at it.

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.

I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work.

And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.

When it comes to work, I am focused. I work like a maniac.

I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.

When you're doing a job, you go out there and do it to the best of your ability and you don't think about awards and things like that.

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.

Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.' Each discipline I approach as a major undertaking that I put my whole self into.

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

When the time comes to work, I work.

I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.

The only way to do something in depth is to work hard.