De Niro, 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York
“As an actor, I don’t judge the characters I play. As a person, I don’t judge the characters I play with,” he said to cheers and applause from the crowd. “I was fortunate to grow up in an atmosphere where freedom of expression in art and in life were the norms. Now, we have to look outside our bubble to the world where, because of religious beliefs or ignorance or mean-spiritedness, it’s not so easy.”
