Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

I've just got to maintain my passion for what I do.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I'm still exploring in a lot of ways. I don't know myself completely.

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I don't have emotions about a lot of things. I rarely get angry, I rarely cry. I guess I do get excited a lot, but I don't get sad and enormously happy. I think a lot of people who talk about all that crap are lying. Right now I'm just trying to maintain happiness — that's all I really care about. Anyway, when you're my age and your hormones are kicking in, there's not much besides sex that's on your mind.

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The more I've acted, I've realised that I have a) no control of and b) no way of really quite understanding how people react to anything I do, or any movie I do.

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Dreams feel real while were in them. Its only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

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I lived in Hollywood and, ironically, I didn't know you could just go out and get an agent and go on auditions and try and become an actor, I thought it was like a Masonic thing, like a blood line you had to belong to – until I was 13. Then I realized what you had to do. It is the one thing I know I want to do for the rest of my life.

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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 I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay.

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I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.

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When you grow up in the film industry, the director is your father. You follow your fathers lead, but you make your own way.

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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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I like girls who are intelligent, somewhat funny, and pretty with a nice personality.

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I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

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I'm nothing like Romeo in real life.

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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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As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called a little crazy. And now I guess I'm still that way.

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If a film is good, and I'm sort of able to sit there and absorb myself within that world. And get lost. That is a pretty powerful tool. And there's not many paintings out there, that make me want to stare at it for hours at a time, and wonder where I am !

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Sam Mende's 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 have to say as an actor I have been inspired by so many British actors throughout the years.

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Its interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets that J. Edgar Hoover was able to obtain and keep for such a long period of time would be possible in today's world, with the Internet and WikiLeaks.

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