Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes
I didn't worry about what DeNiro thought... I went in, looked him in the eye, and got the part. I was confident, even though I'd never done anything like it before. Now I realise it was ignorant confidence-I had no idea.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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There are always going to be critics... and I have always had a rule: no matter how good the commentary is, or how bad the commentary is, it's more important that you do what you think is right.
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I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it.
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It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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It's a bit weird, because I don't really know what people expect or think being political is; I just don't get it. What am I supposed to do as a pop star-stroke-revolutionary? Get up and put my balaclava on, go to the grocery store and then invent some Google viruses, and then go to rob a bank to fund my revolution on YouTube?
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Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
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I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.
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Sometimes people are like, 'Hey, you played Dean Thomas!' and I'm like, 'Wow, you actually know!' It kind of shocks me because when I think about movies I love, and if I saw someone who essentially did what I did in Harry Potter, I probably wouldn't recognize them walking down the street.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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I believe that work can be done on security; in combating terrorism in Mexico we have done our part in this area. But at the same time, the world must continue working.
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When the whole world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos
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I didn't worry about what DeNiro thought... I went in, looked him in the eye, and got the part. I was confident, even though I'd never done anything like it before. Now I realise it was ignorant confidence-I had no idea.
