Robert De Niro said he grew up in the Village and spent years in Little Italy, where he came to know Martin Scorsese.
“I hung out in Little Italy for years with, and that's how I know. Marty, Scorsese”
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Robert De Niro named Greetings and Hi, Mom! with Brian De Palma among his early comedies.
“Greetings, hi mom with De Palma, and then, um, another comedy we did was The Untouchables years later.”
Robert De Niro said he practiced the saxophone for New York, New York but never kept playing it.
“I practiced a lot with, um, uh, the saxophone in in, um, New York, New York, and. But I never kept it up”
Robert De Niro said he first saw Meryl Streep on stage in The Cherry Orchard with Raul Julia.
“I saw her do, uh, the Cherry Orchard, I think it was with Raul Julia, and”
Robert De Niro said he has worked with Jane Rosenthal for 37 or 38 years and that she was honored at a Chanel party the night before.
“Jane and I worked, uh, together for 37, 38 years. And, uh, we had a thing last night at, um, uh, the Chanel party”
Robert De Niro said his first New York apartment, on Irving Place, might have been a single room with a bed in it.
“It might have not even been a one bedroom, it might have been just this one room that you put a bed in there.”
Robert De Niro said he went on Saturdays as a child to the Laugh Movie, a 42nd Street theater that showed only comedies.
“And there was a theater called the Laugh Movie on 42nd Street, and it had only comedies.”