Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes
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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I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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I am not into marriage. You look at all the marriages breaking down and all the people cheating on their marriages, and you become cynical. Marriage is nothing but a label.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking.
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My evolution came not as a plan but as opportunities came. People offer them when they see you're doing something well. It's up to you to recognize them, take them, and then dedicate yourself to them.
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I also got to know Roger Corman a bit while we were on location in Mendocino. And then, subsequently, a woman who also worked on The Dunwich Horror named Tamara Asseyev and I teamed up and co-produced a picture that I wrote and directed, called Sweet Kill, that Roger Corman's then-new company distributed.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside.
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As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way.
