Robert De Niro
Actor
I am the way I am, and I can’t change that. Why even think about it?
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A little more self-confidence wouldn’t hurt.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 8 January 2019 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 49 →I would like to be less impulsive.
Best to leave things alone. Pull things out, it all comes down. I’m Jenga like that.
That I would have focused more on languages.
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They can take the piss out of me and it still feels like wisdom and loyalty.
Playing around in my studio by myself, discovering the possibility of new ideas.
A world destroyed by science-denying mediocrity.
To place faith over facts.
Showing off onstage, with everyone laughing and applauding.
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