Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I'm not an actor who can just play the kid.

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• I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

  

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• When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.

  

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• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

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• There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

  

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• Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

  

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• I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.

  

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• You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.

  

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• The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.

  

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• But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.

  

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• It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

  

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• Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.

  

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• I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.

  

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• I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.

  

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• The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.

  

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• In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.

  

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• Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.

  

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• At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.

  

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• Please let me know to what extent you have used, or intend using, the pruning knife.

  

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• People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.

  

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• At age 14, you are just beginning to work out who you think you are, and being famous is a huge distortion of reality, and it's not healthy for a young person to be considered more special than their peers. So, I would say it hindered my self-esteem but in later years gave me a great perspective that I wouldn't have if I hadn't experienced that.

  

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• Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I'm not an actor who can just play the kid.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Age
  • Play
  • Actor