Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCapriois an American actor and a film producer...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth11 November 1974
CityLos Angeles, CA
change character who-i-am
The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.
believe night sight
With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn't happened to me yet.
memories blood years
I've been in the business since I was 16, so I've had a 14-year career. I've always had acting in my blood. Doing this, whatever it is, was something I was drawn to since my earliest memories. Ironically, I lived in Hollywood, but never understood that all it took was getting an agent and being persistent.
eating grapes second-thoughts
I didn't even know what I did in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape'. I just went off with whatever I felt instinctually without a second thought.
sleep fire mind
Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in the state of sleep when our subconscious, or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things.
pain thinking forever
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.'
land scripts lap
It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.
moving inspiration thinking
That's an inspiration for all women to see a woman thinking and moving differently from those around her.
jobs real thinking
I think it's a real danger, as an actor, when you try to make some statement through your career about what the business should be doing or ultimately what your image should be or how you want to be perceived. I look at every project that comes along and say, "Is this something I can sink my teeth into and can do a good job on?" That's really how I choose roles.
thinking government people
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.
sacrifice levels hard
It's a hard concept for me to wrap my head around to completely sacrifice any sort of love in your life, to never experience that on a personal level.
hero trying roles
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.
way stills knows
I'm still exploring in a lot of ways. I don't know myself completely.
love-is thinking interesting
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.