Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

I've changed. You can't help it. Your mind starts working in a different way. You feel really scrutinised by people.

I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.

I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been. I remember fragments of my dream, and I try to take a traditional sort of approach to researching this project and doing preparation for it.

I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.

We must all move shoulder to shoulder in a unified front to show this administration that the true majority of people are willing to vote for a cleaner environment and won't back down.

Fame is not the worst thing. I went to dinner the other night, and the girls in the restaurant ignored me. It was so annoying.

I've just got to maintain my passion for what I do.

Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstanding.

I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.

Doing what we do [filming], you have to be your own critic and judge and adjudicate as to what you do and how it turned out.

I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand your gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.

When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.

There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind.

The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult.

We've been given this gift, our planet, and we've found no other place in the universe that we can inhabit. I want to do something to create radical change to help save it. It's our responsibility.

At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing is, you'll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man.

The more I've acted, I've realised that I have a) no control of and b) no way of really quite understanding how people react to anything I do, or any movie I do.

Subconscious is motivated by emotion, right? Not reason.

Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.

Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.

That's an inspiration for all women to see a woman thinking and moving differently from those around her.

It's a hard concept for me to wrap my head around to completely sacrifice any sort of love in your life, to never experience that on a personal level.

When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.

Most of the time I just keep to myself. I think like what it would be like to be... someone else.

(Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying.

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!

I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.

Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery

I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.

The truth is that I've always been fascinated with wealth in America. To me, it's been about the American dream and the corruption of that dream.

To put a lot of hard work and effort into a project or character and for it to be recognised, how can it not be nice?

Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I'm not an actor who can just play the kid.

I didn't even know what I did in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape'. I just went off with whatever I felt instinctually without a second thought.

It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.

For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.

One of my passions is to meet people and then imitate them. I love doing that.

I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people, Romeo and Juliet, took a chance and they did it. We don't have the balls that Romeo did.

At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.

I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.

I like girls who are intelligent, somewhat funny, and pretty with a nice personality.

Obviously people don't want other people to tell them how to think or what to believe, or to tell them what's right politically and what's wrong.

Will this coffee get me an Oscar?

That's the magic of moviemaking. You clearly identify one scenario with the other, and it's a completely different experience.

It gets to the point where you're hot, you're hot, and when you're not, you're not. It's so true. I have to slow down soon.

As far as my own dreams, I'm not a big dreamer, I think obviously we suppress things in life, emotions and thoughts, and we should wake up and look at that.

I always wanted to be an actor and I'd never dreamt that not only would I be able to do this for a living, but also on top of that I'd be able to choose and steer the course of my own career.

You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered.

The truth of the matter is this - I never look for films specifically, because ultimately if the fundamentals of the character and the script and the director aren't there, it makes it a moot point.