"I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances."
Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor, Producer, Environmental Activist
Leonardo DiCaprio is an acclaimed actor and environmental activist known for his roles in films like 'Titanic' and 'Inception', and his commitment to climate change advocacy.
- Born
- November 11, 1974
- Quotes
- 230
- Rank
- #5917
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Leonardo DiCaprio quotes (page 7 of 12)
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"I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people, Romeo and Juliet, took a chance and they did it. We don't have the balls that Romeo did."
"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."
"I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy."
"You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing."
"One of my passions is to meet people and then imitate them. I love doing that."
"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."
"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."
"At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing."
"Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs."
"Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future."
"I like girls who are intelligent, somewhat funny, and pretty with a nice personality."
"Will this coffee get me an Oscar?"
"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."
"Obviously people don't want other people to tell them how to think or what to believe, or to tell them what's right politically and what's wrong."
"As an actor, you're constantly searching for that great character. Also, being a history buff and learning about people in our past and amazing things that they've done, I came across a book about Howard Hughes and he was set up as basically, the most multi-dimensional character I could ever come across. Often, people have tried to define him in biographies, but no one seems to be able to categorize him."
"It gets to the point where you're hot, you're hot, and when you're not, you're not. It's so true. I have to slow down soon."
"That's the magic of moviemaking. You clearly identify one scenario with the other, and it's a completely different experience."
"You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered."
"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."