Robert De Niro on Being Shy and Becoming an Actor
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Robert De Niro opens up to Amy Poehler about growing up quiet and how acting allows you to taste different lives without paying the ultimate price.
- 1. Amy asks De Niro if he was shy as a kid and he explains the beauty of stepping into other characters.
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I was quiet at some time but when I would have to speak up I would but and I think being an actor it allows you I always used to say this and still say it allows you to be other characters that you would normally not know at all and this way it gives you a little taste of what they would be like and that experience would be like and so without having really to pay a price though you're aware of the price whatever that character's price is
I was quiet at some time but when I would have to speak up I would but and I think being an actor it allows you I always used to say this and still say it allows you to be other characters that you would normally not know at all and this way it gives you a little taste of what they would be like and that experience would be like and so without having really to pay a price though you're aware of the price whatever that character's price is
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