Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes
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I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating.
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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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I don't think my parents would be shocked about anything I did, because they're so laid-back.
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I grew up in Hollywood but not in any rich neighborhood.
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I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted himself by his bootstraps from a poor kid in the Midwest and created this image that is The Great Gatsby and it's a truly American story in that regard.
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Will this coffee get me an Oscar?
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I think the environmental movement is the biggest people's movement in the world. Unfortunately, our governments and corporations haven't responded accordingly to protect our planet's natural resources.
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Playing Arnie was fun because everything I did was spontaneous.
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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.
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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 just happen to think people are better off doing something they actually like.
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It's not just global warming, it's not just a loss of biodiversity, it's not just the pollution of our oceans and the clearing of our rainforests and all these complicated systems, The [11th Hour] movie talks about the world economy, it talks about politics, it talks about personal transformation and environmental consciousness that we need to have in this generation to implement a lot of these changes that need to occur.
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People always ask, 'Was it fun? Was it fun working on a movie?' I don't know if that's the operative word. It is challenging and interesting and all those other things, but fun isn't always.
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Mozambique is having an economic resurgence but still four out of 10 people there have HIV or AIDS...There's astounding conditions but what I was left with...was the power of the human spirit there and the fact these people have been through so much and they were still dancing in the streets.
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I think people read the tabloids because they want to see you eating a burger, or out of your makeup or doing something stupid because they just want to see that you're like everyone else. And that's okay. I don't want to catch myself anymore saying that my life is hard, because the good far outweighs the bad in my life. And it's easier to focus on those things, on the things that are important.
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I remember the 'Checkered Demon'. He's this little devil with this three-foot dong that just porks everybody. And that wa s my idea of what sex was about. And I was, "Oh, wow! I can't wait.
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(Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying.
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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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My first date was with a girl named Cessi. We'd had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer long. Then she came home and we met to go out for the first time to the movies. When I saw her I was petrified. I couldn't even look her in the eye to talk to her.
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I think actors make the mistake of finding their little niche in the business and once they try to do something a little darker, boom, they get slapped across the face for it, so they go back to what they did before.
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That's an inspiration for all women to see a woman thinking and moving differently from those around her.
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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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I know a lot of the intense moments in 'Titanic' were made that much easier and were pushed to even further limits because of that relationship.
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We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.