Legendary actor and producer, Robert De Niro appeared on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and gave us a throwback of his 70s movie “Taxi Driver”. The multiple Grammy Award-winning artist shared how he had to get a taxicab driver’s license while filming Taxi Driver. Read on to know all about this interesting conversation.

First Guest ever On “Late Night”

Jimmy’s “The Tonight Show” was all about nostalgia. As Robert De Niro entered, Jimmy Fallon reminded the 79-year-old star that he was Jimmy’s first guest ever when he started Late Night”. He even revealed the old guest sign book from the “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” and said, “You were the first person to sign this book.”

Jimmy then asked “The Godfather Part II” star to read what he wrote for him back then. It was written: “Jimmy I think you really [beep] up.” The note was signed by Robert on February 3, 2009. De Niro asked, “And you know what, I gave…How many years ago was that?” Jimmy replied, “13 years ago.” The “Taxi Driver” star revealed that he gave Jimmy a dollar. Jimmy responded, “It was “The Tonight Show”, but you don’t get that money back.”

Di Nero’s Museum And The Cab Driver License…

FYI, this weekend, Robert De Niro was honoured at the Harry Ransom Centre at the University of Texas and opened the “De Niro Curator Of Film” endowment. Jimmy explained, “This is a museum…it includes everything you’ve saved throughout your career, right?

De Niro replied, “Well, not everything, a lot because I see that stuff would disappear or I’d be trying on something in a costume place in L.A., and it’d be something from another production, you say…And in my own experience, things would disappear, if you didn’t hold on to them. People would take them as souvenirs and so on.” So yea, a museum sounds like a perfect way to cherish these memorable things that belong to the legendary actor.

De Niro even quoted an example of Brando’s Godfather script and said, “There was Brando’s original Godfather script, which was sold on eBay and my assistant pointed out this to me, so it never really, you know–had a real place. It was just wherever, bought and put away somewhere. So I thought I’ll keep all this stuff and keep it– and then, one day we started talking about where it would go, and it was becoming very costly to hold it.”

This was the reason why Harry Ransom Center took all my material, which I thought was–I was very happy because they’ve got great things there and proud to be part of that family.  Jimmy nodded stating that it was an amazing thing!