Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes
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Be thankful for the hard times, for they have made you.
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For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.
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Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery.
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Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.
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Sometimes you've got to go to the wrong place just to show that you're not afraid to go there.
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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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I never thought I could travel unless I had a wife or someone to share it with. You don't necessarily need that, but I am the type of person that wants to share a lot.
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I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.
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I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.
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I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.
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If we do not act together, we will surely perish.
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[Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the screenplay and that's rarely something that can be remedied if it's simply not there by the time you shoot the film. Thank God we had that.
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If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.
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We're at risk of losing this iconic species for all time. Once it's stripped of its natural instincts, it's no longer a tiger. But there's a lot of species like that. The more intriguing thing, throughout Asia, a lot of these countries are selling off their jungle-and-forest rights for oil and for paper-and-pulp companies.
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We only get one planet.
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Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.
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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.
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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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It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.
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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.
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I like movies! No, I like theater too. And paintings are great, and all of that! But to me, the great sort of artistic medium I think, of our time, is film. I really feel that. I mean to me, there's nothing else out there, where I can sort of suspend disbelief for two hours.
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These types of films that are psychologically sort of dark at times, I find extremely exciting to do because there's always something to think about. There's nothing more boring than to show up on set and say a line and know that your character means exactly what they say. It's interesting to have an unreliable narrator in a film and that's what both of those films have been.
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My dad has always been the bohemian.
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I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.