Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes
My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.
Quotes to Explore
-
The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
-
For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
-
I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
-
I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
-
All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
-
Be who you are and be that well.
-
It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
-
She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
-
I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
-
Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
-
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
-
You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
-
In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
-
Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
-
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
-
I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
-
While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
-
If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
-
If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
-
For me, going to markets is the best way to understand the soul of a place.
-
I like the piano a lot better 'cause it seemed like I got a lot more instant music out of the piano than I did with the guitar.
-
What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of 'art for art's sake' than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore - and then there will be time enough for art.
-
One musical that deeply influenced me - and continues to do so - is the 1997 ABC TV movie of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'Cinderella,' starring Brandy, with Whitney Houston as the Fairy Godmother and Whoopi Goldberg as the prince's mom.
-
My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.
