Top 100 Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes
#1. Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future.
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#2. That's an inspiration for all women to see a woman thinking and moving differently from those around her.
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#3. 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.
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#5. To play a repressed gay man, I had to explore what life was like in an era of sexual repression.
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#6. 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.
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#7. The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.
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#8. I want to be the perfect child. I owe so much to my parents and the way I was brought up.
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#9. If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.
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#10. 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.
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#11. Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other - they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.
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#12. I'm still exploring in a lot of ways. I don't know myself completely.
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#14. Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.
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#15. We actually did a lot of takes on this movie [J. Edgar Hoover ]. I never left the set wanting more. That's for sure. I don't know. This was a very difficult character for me and a lot of the other actors here, and at times we went and did 8 or 9 or 10 takes on a single day.
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#16. I sometimes have to look back and say, "Wow, this is amazing what has happened to me. I have been able to fulfill a lot of these dreams that I had when I was very young." It's a pretty amazing feeling. But at the same time it becomes addictive!
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#17. The things that you did with parents, whether it was spending every Sunday morning with your dad and eating French toast and watching Popeye, or decorating the Christmas tree with our mother - these are memories that help you be happy.
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#18. Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.
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#19. 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.
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#20. Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.
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#22. I'll just be the first to say that Ken [Watanabe] should be a national treasure in Japan, because he is an unbelievably talented actor. You couldn't find more of a gentleman. He's sweet, he's kind and he's extremely thoughtful in the work that he does.
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#24. Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.
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#25. I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.
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#26. I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?
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#27. We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.
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#28. I like to prepare as much as possible beforehand, but there's definitely that element of fear when you're on set, and you have to be conscious of it and use that fear to drive you to work harder.
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#29. To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.
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#30. People always ask, 'Was it fun? Was it fun working on a movie?' I don't know if that's the operative word. It is challenging and interesting and all those other things, but fun isn't always.
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#31. 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.
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#33. I have never been a fashionista or someone who puts a lot of thought into what I wear, and I dress to be as comfortable as I possibly can.
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#34. It's very hard to impose your beliefs or a specific message about any given movie. I think that audiences always extract what they want from a film even if something isn't overtly political. They may or may not get it, and it's hard to control that.
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#35. It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets that J. Edgar Hoover was able to obtain and keep for such a long period of time would be possible in today's world, with the Internet and WikiLeaks.
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#36. As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.
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#37. The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and I was happy. I don't think that I will strive for money or success and end up greedy or big-headed. That only leads to unhappiness. I can still be down-to-earth and do this job as long as I enjoy it.
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#38. A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.
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#39. Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming.
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#40. When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie.
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#41. I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets ... the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.
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#42. I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.
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#43. Sam [Mendes] said he took advantage of the fact that Kate and I were so close for many years. He knew it was something he could harness in our performances, and we knew that too.
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#44. My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task.
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#45. I think it's much more interesting when people say, "I love being famous. I love the attention and getting laid and having people I respect admire me," than when they pretend it hasn't had an effect on them.
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#47. If you can unify the public mind saving an iconic species like the tiger, like they did with the panda, that means you have to protect their habitat and everything that they hunt. And that means saving massive, thousands of acres for them to be able to roam and breed. So it's more of a land effort.
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#49. 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.
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#51. I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.
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#52. Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.
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#53. It's easy to be an expert if you're the only one in the world with an interest.
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#54. You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.
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#55. At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.
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#56. We must set an example now and move environmentalism from being the philosophy of a passionate minority ... to a way of life that automatically integrates ecology into governmental policy and normal living standards.
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#57. As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way.
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#58. 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.
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#59. When I grew up, I lived in the ghettos of Hollywood; it was the most disgusting place to be. I was known as the crazy little kid. I did impressions. Then I realized that's not what I want to do. I don't want to be a comedian to please other people.
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#60. I touched emotions I've never tapped in my entire life. I've heard people say, 'I hope this movie doesn't glamorise drugs ...
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#61. I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy.
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#62. Dark green is my favorite color. It's the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss!
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#63. Sometimes I wonder will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago.
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#64. Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.
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#65. My first date was with a girl named Cessi. We'd had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer long. Then she came home and we met to go out for the first time to the movies. When I saw her I was petrified. I couldn't even look her in the eye to talk to her.
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#66. What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.
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#67. I'm open to doing any kind of role and any kind of genre as long as it's interesting and as long as I feel it could be a great character to play. I never take into my own personal opinions or my own public image into account when I chose movie roles.
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#68. 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!
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#69. Most of the time I do feel like I need someone else when I'm alone. But I can still get by with just my own company and that makes me a stronger person.
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#70. I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to the, obviously, the individual.
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#71. 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.
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#72. 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.
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#73. It was closer to manual labor than shooting a film. I always think of something Michael Caton-Jones told me: 'Pain is temporary. Film is forever.'
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#74. I'm not really the quiet type, although some people think I am. But I'm the rebel type in the sense that I don't think I'm like everyone else. I try to be an individual.
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#75. Marty [Scorsese] knows that when an improvised moment comes out of a real situation, it's gonna have more life and more going on than anything you can imagine and that's how the character can become the story
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#76. It's my first sort of commercial attempt, but it made sense for me because I'm not that kind of guy and I'm not going to continue to do that kind of movie.
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#77. I've got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it's hard to live up to.
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#79. 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.
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#80. We were both [ with Russel Crowe] hand-plucked to do [The Quick and the Death]. He had done Romper Stomper and I had done Gilbert Grape and so we were hand- plucked to do this big budget film. So we were both very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
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#81. I have to say as an actor I have been inspired by so many British actors throughout the years.
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#82. I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character ... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted himself by his bootstraps from a poor kid in the Midwest and created this image that is The Great Gatsby and it's a truly American story in that regard.
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#83. When I can't immediately define the character, and there's an element of mystery to it and still a lot to be explored, that's when I say yes.
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#84. I've never tried to reach a certain demographic of an audience or try to say: OK, now I'm going to do this type of film to transition myself into more adult roles. Or a romantic hero. Or whatever it may be.
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#85. I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.
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#86. It's a weird feeling when people are defining you, and you haven't even defined yourself.
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#87. If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.
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#88. The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out.
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#90. I don't think my parents would be shocked about anything I did, because they're so laid-back.
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#91. And now it's your turn - the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now.
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#92. 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.
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#93. I really don't know what I'm doing ... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.
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#94. What I would do in order to be popular was, I'd put myself on line and joke around and be funny, and I was always known as the crazy kid.
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#95. 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'.
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#96. Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels.
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#97. I spent a long time in art school so I can really draw. I'll doodle and suddenly I'll find the beginning of the movie in one picture. Usually, I start my stuff on the telephone. Right by the telephone I've got a book of doodles. When I'm on the phone, I'll be doing a drawing eventually.
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#98. My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.
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#100. Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea that you could see someone tomorrow and she could be the love of your life? It's very romantic.
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