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. – Leonardo DiCaprio
Don’t think for a moment that I’m really like any of the characters I’ve played. I’m not. That’s why it’s called ‘acting’. – 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
I have very little fashion sense, and to tell you the truth, I give it very little thought. I dress to be as comfortable as I possibly can. Most of my clothing is either black, grey, or dark blue, and I don’t really wear a lot of colours. But I do like jackets. I have a little bit of an obsession with them. – Leonardo DiCaprio
I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in the same way, as if it were a fiction. – Leonardo DiCaprio
I was a bit of a loudmouth, and I was in an environment where the elements aligned to have kids smack the hell outta me once in a while. – Leonardo DiCaprio
Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me, I don’t know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I’m a weirdo. – 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
I love science fiction, but I have a hard time feeling for characters in a galaxy far away. Choosing movies is the one thing in my life where there’s no compromising. – Leonardo DiCaprio
I don’t think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of. – Leonardo DiCaprio
School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn’t want to learn. – Leonardo DiCaprio
I have a production company,; I have a foundation. I have a lot of responsibilities. Not family – just a lot of responsibilities. – Leonardo DiCaprio
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’ve been very lucky to have achieved a lot of the things that I dreamt of achieving as a young man. But, at the end of the day – and I truly believe this – it is not about achieving great wealth or success. Because they don’t bring happiness, ultimately. – 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’ve never done drugs. That’s because I saw this stuff literally every day when I was 3 or 4 years old. – Leonardo DiCaprio
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. – Leonardo DiCaprio
You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing. – Leonardo DiCaprio
I’ve been planted here to be a vessel for acting… That’s why I’m really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it’s going to be. – Leonardo DiCaprio
People are always like, ‘It must be so hard for you, not to be able to leave your house. I’m like, ‘No, I go where I want and do whatever I want all the time.’ ‘No, you walk down the street?’ ‘Yeah, I do all the time.’ ‘Really?’ ‘Yeah, all the time.’ – Leonardo DiCaprio
I don’t think anyone really gets used to being recognized around the world. It kind of feels like a videogame at times, especially with paparazzi and people following you and things of that nature. But it’s part of who I am now. – Leonardo DiCaprio
My parents, who were split up, were so good at keeping my environment strong and keeping everything around me not focused on the fact that we were poor. They got me culture. They took me to museums. They showed art to me. They read to me. And my mother drove two hours a day to take me to University Elementary School. – Leonardo DiCaprio
I prefer ordinary girls – you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn’t mean we are dating. – Leonardo DiCaprio
The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor. – Leonardo DiCaprio
I remember reading the book in high school and always thinking of Gatsby as this strong, stoic, suave, mysterious man who had everything under control. But when I read it as an adult, I realised he is a hollow man, a shell of a person trying to find meaning, who is not completely in touch with reality. – Leonardo DiCaprio
As a young boy, I was obsessed with endangered species and the extinct species that men killed off. Biology was the subject in school that I was incredibly passionate about. – Leonardo DiCaprio
Considering all that’s happened in my life, I feel like I’m a pretty levelheaded person that has remained happy and not let my shortcomings overtake the better part of me. I’m fulfilling the things I wanted to fulfill, and I’m still sane. – Leonardo DiCaprio