Latest Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes from Interviews

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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."

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Hearing, Doe, Middle

  "Eastwood, DiCaprio talk about making 'J. Edgar'". Interview, www.koreaherald.com. November 11, 2011.

• I have to say as an actor I have been inspired by so many British actors throughout the years.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Years, Actors, Inspired

  "Leonardo DiCaprio pays tribute to his mother as he wins the Best Actor gong at the 2016 BAFTAs for his role in The Revenant" by Rebecca Davison, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 14, 2016.

• If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Character, Stories, Actors

  Source: collider.com

• Marty [Scorsese] knows that when an improvised moment comes out of a real situation, it's gonna have more life and more going on than anything you can imagine and that's how the character can become the story

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Real, Character, Stories

  Source: collider.com

• You never know as a director what other directors do. Because you don't get to see what they do.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Directors, Knows

  Source: collider.com

• At first glance, you read something on the page and it can seem one way, and you can have your decisions before you wind up on set about what that set is supposed to mean, but until you're actually there doing them, there's really no way to understand it.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mean, Wind, Decision

• Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Energy, Climate, Transition

  "Institutions worth $2.6 trillion have now pulled investments out of fossil fuels" by Damian Carrington, Emma Howard, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2015.

• [Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the screenplay and that's rarely something that can be remedied if it's simply not there by the time you shoot the film. Thank God we had that.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Honesty, Character, Thank God

  "Revolutionary Road : Leonardo DiCaprio interview". Cinema.com Interview, cinema.com.

• I sometimes have to look back and say, "Wow, this is amazing what has happened to me. I have been able to fulfill a lot of these dreams that I had when I was very young." It's a pretty amazing feeling. But at the same time it becomes addictive!

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Dream, Feelings, Looks

  "Leonardo Dicaprio: 'I Am A Lot Calmer Now'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. November 9, 2011.

• I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of doing a specific genre or because it's the time or place to do a different type of movie. I think that would be a huge mistake.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mistake, Thinking, Different

  "Leonardo Dicaprio: 'I Am A Lot Calmer Now'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. November 9, 2011.

• 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.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Careers, World, Scripts

  "Revolutionary Road : Leonardo DiCaprio interview". Cinema.com Interview, cinema.com.

• 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.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Years, Facts, Harness

  "Revolutionary Road : Leonardo DiCaprio interview". Cinema.com Interview, cinema.com.

• I have never been a fashionista or someone who puts a lot of thought into what I wear, and I dress to be as comfortable as I possibly can.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Dresses, Fashionista, Comfortable

  "Leonardo DiCaprio Admits He's No Fashionista, May Consider Marriage". Interview with Jordan Riefe, www.refinery29.com. May 9, 2013.

• It was invaluable to have a dear friend who you have known for over a decade, be a partner in a film like Titanic. To have somebody that talented to work against, who's also your friend and who you know you have the best intentions for and vice versa, and who you intrinsically trust to give you their forthright honest opinion about what we're both doing - all that's something you can't really buy.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Giving, Vices, Who You Know

• 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.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Intense Moments, Limits, Easier

  "Revolutionary Road : Leonardo DiCaprio interview". Cinema.com Interview, cinema.com.

• It's very hard to impose your beliefs or a specific message about any given movie. I think that audiences always extract what they want from a film even if something isn't overtly political. They may or may not get it, and it's hard to control that.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Thinking, Political, May

  "The Star of Africa". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. January 24, 2007.

• I hate complaining about paparazzi, I hate complaining about being recognised, because if I ultimately didn't want to be an actor or in the public eye, I would quit doing what I do. That's not the reason I do it, but I love the work so much that it's worth it.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Hate, Eye, Complaining

  "The Star of Africa". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. January 24, 2007.

• The truth of the matter is this - I never look for films specifically, because ultimately if the fundamentals of the character and the script and the director aren't there, it makes it a moot point.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Character, Directors, Looks

• I'm open to doing any kind of role and any kind of genre as long as it's interesting and as long as I feel it could be a great character to play. I never take into my own personal opinions or my own public image into account when I chose movie roles.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Character, Personal Opinions, Play

• I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Eye, Thinking, Roles

  "The Star of Africa". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. January 24, 2007.

• 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.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  School, Watches, Tvs

• 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!

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Powerful, Tools, World

  "The Leonardo DiCaprio Revolutionary Road Interview". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. December 27, 2008.

• I like movies! No, I like theater too. And paintings are great, and all of that! But to me, the great sort of artistic medium I think, of our time, is film. I really feel that. I mean to me, there's nothing else out there, where I can sort of suspend disbelief for two hours.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mean, Thinking, Two

  "The Leonardo DiCaprio Revolutionary Road Interview". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. December 27, 2008.

• 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.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "The Leonardo Dicaprio Body of Lies Interview". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. October 11, 2008.

• Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that 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.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Sleep, Fire, Mind

  "INCEPTION Press Conference Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, Christopher Nolan, Hans Zimmer and Emma Thomas". collider.com. July 12, 2010.