Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes
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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'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.
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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.
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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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We must set an example now and move environmentalism from being the philosophy of a passionate minority ... to a way of life that automatically integrates ecology into governmental policy and normal living standards.
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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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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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To play a repressed gay man, I had to explore what life was like in an era of sexual repression.
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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 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 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's amazing to completely focus on something for four, five or six months, have it completely consume your life and be constantly thinking about somebody else's set of circumstances and how they would react to something. I find it fascinating. It's rewarding and on a professional and personal level.
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One of my passions is to meet people and then imitate them. I love doing that.
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There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind.
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My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers.
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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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That's an inspiration for all women to see a woman thinking and moving differently from those around her.
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Sam [Mendes] said he took advantage of the fact that Kate and I were so close for many years. He knew it was something he could harness in our performances, and we knew that too.
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Playing Arnie was fun because everything I did was spontaneous.
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I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?
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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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If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay.
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It does feel like the middle ground has fallen out. I'm only saying that from personal experience, saying, "I'd like to make that movie" and hearing, "Oh, they're not making those types of movies anymore."