Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes
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I want to be the perfect child. I owe so much to my parents and the way I was brought up.
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You have to enjoy life in the process. It may sound corny, but it's true. At the end of the day, we can't always achieve everything that we dream of but you do have to enjoy life in the process.
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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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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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I created my foundation as a result of that and my website, and I try to shed some light on some very topical issues right now. The idea is to try to get people to become obviously more knowledgeable about the issue and try to get corporations and individuals to contribute to these nonprofit organizations.
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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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Then I saw Keanu Reeves in 'Much Ado About Nothing' and I know if he can do it, I can do it too.
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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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When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.
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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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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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We've been given this gift, our planet, and we've found no other place in the universe that we can inhabit. I want to do something to create radical change to help save it. It's our responsibility.
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I'm nothing like Romeo in real life.
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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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Playing Arnie was fun because everything I did was spontaneous.
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My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.
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The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it. As for myself, I'm not really sure who I am. I change every day.
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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 have no problem playing anyone who has different politics than me. In fact, I don't take that into consideration at all. You have to find something sympathetic in a man. It's that common ground you need to connect with someone.
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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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I think it's much more interesting when people say, "I love being famous. I love the attention and getting laid and having people I respect admire me," than when they pretend it hasn't had an effect on them.
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My mother is a walking miracle.
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I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success.
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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.