Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes
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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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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My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.
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We only get one planet.
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Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstanding.
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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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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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Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.
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I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.
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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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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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That's the magic of moviemaking. You clearly identify one scenario with the other, and it's a completely different experience.
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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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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 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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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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[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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Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.
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If we do not act together, we will surely perish.
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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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My dad has always been the bohemian.
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Since I was very young I've been fascinated with nature and I actually wanted to be a marine biologist when I was very young. That was a great passion of mine. So I suppose in the off season when I'm not making movies, I became more and more active as an environmentalist trying to be more vocal about issues that I felt were important.