Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

I get a friend to travel with me ... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“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.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity ... We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“Me, I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know its not some place you can look for because its not where you go. It's how you feel for a moment in your life when you're a part of something and if you find that moment, it lasts forever.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“Dark green is my favorite color. It's the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss!”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Sometimes you've got to go to the wrong place just to show that you're not afraid to go there.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea that you could see someone tomorrow and she could be the love of your life? It's very romantic.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“It's easy to be an expert if you're the only one in the world with an interest.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Will this coffee get me an Oscar?

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“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.'”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“The things that you did with parents, whether it was spending every Sunday morning with your dad and eating French toast and watching Popeye, or decorating the Christmas tree with our mother - these are memories that help you be happy.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

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.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

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.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“Right now, our mother
our mother
all of our mothers, 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. You can help us win the battle to clean up our air, our water, our land, to protect our forests, our oceans and our wildlife.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“The subconscious is motivated by emotion, not reason.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“I always wanted to be an actor and I'd never dreamt that not only would I be able to do this for a living, but also on top of that I'd be able to choose and steer the course of my own career.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

When I grew up, I lived in the ghettos of Hollywood; it was the most disgusting place to be. I was known as the crazy little kid. I did impressions. Then I realized that's not what I want to do. I don't want to be a comedian to please other people.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“I like doing things that scare me. I went bungee jumping, but sky diving is just the sickest thing.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“I don't think my parents would be shocked about anything I did, because they're so laid-back.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“I believe humankind has looked at Climate Change in that same way: as if it were a fiction, happening to someone else's planet, as if pretending that Climate Change wasn't real would somehow make it go away.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“There is no element of genius without some form of madness.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“I urge individuals around the world to stand up, and ask local leaders, if they haven't already, to pledge to purchase cleaner cars, build green facilities, and buy green power like wind or solar energy. Our actions may determine if we become a casualty in the war for a habitable planet for generations to come.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

My dad has always been the bohemian ...

— Leonardo DiCaprio

My first date was with a girl named Cessi. We'd had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer long. Then she came home and we met to go out for the first time to the movies. When I saw her I was petrified. I couldn't even look her in the eye to talk to her.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

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

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“If we do not act together, we will surely perish.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“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

“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

“[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

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

People always ask, 'Was it fun? Was it fun working on a movie?' I don't know if that's the operative word. It is challenging and interesting and all those other things, but fun isn't always.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“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

“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

“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

“Kate Winslet also happens to be one of my close friends who I goof off with like crazy. It was a reunion of two people who, I guess, are a little bit older, a tiny bit wiser but ultimately were the same as they were when they were 21.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

There's so many intangible forces that come into play when making a film, I have no idea what the public will ultimately think of something that I do, let alone critics.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“We're at risk of losing this iconic species for all time. Once it's stripped of its natural instincts, it's no longer a tiger. But there's a lot of species like that. The more intriguing thing, throughout Asia, a lot of these countries are selling off their jungle-and-forest rights for oil and for paper-and-pulp companies.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“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.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“These types of films that are psychologically sort of dark at times, I find extremely exciting to do because there's always something to think about. There's nothing more boring than to show up on set and say a line and know that your character means exactly what they say. It's interesting to have an unreliable narrator in a film and that's what both of those films have been.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I'll just be the first to say that Ken [Watanabe] should be a national treasure in Japan, because he is an unbelievably talented actor. You couldn't find more of a gentleman. He's sweet, he's kind and he's extremely thoughtful in the work that he does.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

It's 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.

— Leonardo DiCaprio