Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes
I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.
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Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
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Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
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Part of the reason I wanted to write a novel was that in fiction I could do something that's difficult to do in real life, which is to dwell on the stark details of the experience without really needing to create that narrative of redemption.
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I'm Lou Barletta, and I'm a small town defender.
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The thing that's different about 'Girls' and 'Sex and the City' isn't just that we live in Brooklyn; it's that these girls aren't trying to find their major career paths or life partners. They're just literally trying to get through the week and pay the rent. It's a really different time of life.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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I don't view our approach as negative. I view our approach that when you have a candidate in a Republican primary make statements that would make his position to the left of Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama on immigration... we need to bring that out to the people.
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I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.
