Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes Page 3

“Smile, nod, agree, and do whatever you were going to do anyway.”

“That’s the cool part of the business, going to different countries with your friends and having everything paid for by the studios.”

“The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes… It’s not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.”

“The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and I was happy. I don’t think that I will strive for money or success and end up greedy or big-headed. That only leads to unhappiness.”

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

“Thirty is a very good age for an actor: you can play both young and old men.”

“This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.”

“To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.”

“To join the top 1% you have to do what the 99% won’t.”

“We are all shaped from memories we have as young people.”

“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.”

“When I was young, I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything. I used to think, ‘How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?’ What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.”

“When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.”

“Why worry?”

“Work until you don’t have to introduce yourself.”

“Work until your bank account looks like a phone number.”

“When you kill a king, you don’t stab him in the dark. You kill him where the entire court can watch him die.”

“I’m having a birthday party but you’re not invited, but you can come if you want.”

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

“Dear Dad, you always told me that an honest man has nothing to fear, so I’m trying my best not to be afraid.”

“No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.”

“The wind cannot defeat a tree with strong roots.”

“There are none so deaf as those that will not hear.”

“I am the king of the world!”

“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullsh*t story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.”

“Is it possible? Is it possible to improve on perfection?”

“Be thankful for the hard times, for they have made you.”

“Which would be worse – to live as a monster or to die as a good man.”

“I’m probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people took a chance and they did it. We don’t have the balls that Romeo did.”