Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes
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It was invaluable to have a dear friend who you have known for over a decade, be a partner in a film like Titanic. To have somebody that talented to work against, who's also your friend and who you know you have the best intentions for and vice versa, and who you intrinsically trust to give you their forthright honest opinion about what we're both doing - all that's something you can't really buy.
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It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.
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I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.
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I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.
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Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him.
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I've just got to maintain my passion for what I do.
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It’s easy to be an expert if you’re the only one in the world with an interest.
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I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy.
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If you can unify the public mind saving an iconic species like the tiger, like they did with the panda, that means you have to protect their habitat and everything that they hunt. And that means saving massive, thousands of acres for them to be able to roam and breed. So it's more of a land effort.
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I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.
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I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.
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I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.
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To put a lot of hard work and effort into a project or character and for it to be recognised, how can it not be nice?
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I've got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it's hard to live up to.
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You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition.
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It's a hard concept for me to wrap my head around to completely sacrifice any sort of love in your life, to never experience that on a personal level.
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Our planet's alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action!
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I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.
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I've never tried to reach a certain demographic of an audience or try to say: OK, now I'm going to do this type of film to transition myself into more adult roles. Or a romantic hero. Or whatever it may be.
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When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.
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I watch a lot of Turner Classic movies. But I don't do private screenings. I don't have the old school, reel to reel projectors. I do have a big screen TV, though.
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I like to prepare as much as possible beforehand, but there's definitely that element of fear when you're on set, and you have to be conscious of it and use that fear to drive you to work harder.
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It was closer to manual labor than shooting a film. I always think of something Michael Caton-Jones told me: 'Pain is temporary. Film is forever.'
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I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of doing a specific genre or because it's the time or place to do a different type of movie. I think that would be a huge mistake.