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Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (/dɪˈkæprioʊ/; born November 11, 1974) is an American actor, film producer, and environmental activist. DiCaprio began his career by appearing in television commercials in the late 1980s, after which he had recurring roles in various television series such as the soap opera Santa Barbara and the sitcom Growing Pains. He began his film career by starring as Josh in Critters 3 (1991). He starred in the film adaptation of the memoir This Boy's Life (1993), and was praised for his supporting role in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). He gained public recognition with leading roles in The Basketball Diaries (1995) and the romantic drama Romeo + Juliet (1996), before achieving international fame with James Cameron's epic romance Titanic (1997), which became the highest-grossing film of all time to that point.

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I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.

Hero, Heroes, Motivation, Movies, Opportunity, Watched

I lived in Hollywood and, ironically, I didn't know you could just go out and get an agent and go on auditions and try and become an actor, I thought it was like a Masonic thing, like a blood line you had to belong to – until I was 13. Then I realised what you had to do. It is the one thing I know I want to do for the rest of my life.

Auditions, Blood, Hollywood, Masonic, Trying

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.

Beach, Believe, Forever, Life, Part

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.

Countries, Country, Oil, Rights, Selling

I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets. . . the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.

Ancient, Big, Israel, Like, Pretty, World

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.

Dad, People, Spoiled, World

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.

Character, Chose, Long, Personal, Personal Opinions, Play

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. "

Doe, Hearing, Like, Middle, Movie, Saying

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.

Believe, Climate, Going Away, Humankind, Real

I didn't worry about what DeNiro thought. . . I went in, looked him in the eye, and got the part. I was confident, even though I'd never done anything like it before. Now I realise it was ignorant confidence-I had no idea.

Confidence, Eye, Ideas, Looked, Though, Worry

You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition.

Aspects, Different, Light, Star, Stars, Trying

I think actors make the mistake of finding their little niche in the business and once they try to do something a little darker, boom, they get slapped across the face for it, so they go back to what they did before.

Back, Face, Mistake, Slapped, Thinking, Trying

I'm still exploring in a lot of ways. I don't know myself completely.

Completely, Exploring, Know, Knows, Stills, Way

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

Actors, Dangerous, Interesting, Liberating, World

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

Actually, Dream, Dreams, Real, Realize, Vision

Our planet's alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action!

Alarms, Take, Time, Wake, Wake Up

I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character. . . he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted himself by his bootstraps from a poor kid in the Midwest and created this image that is The Great Gatsby and it's a truly American story in that regard.

Character, Dream, Dreams, Kids, Midwest, Story

I remember the 'Checkered Demon'. He's this little devil with this three-foot dong that just porks everybody. And that wa s my idea of what sex was about. And I was, "Oh, wow! I can't wait.

Devil, Dong, Feet, Ideas, Sex, Wow

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

Character, Imagine, Knows, Real, Stories

The subconscious is motivated by emotion, not reason.

Emotion, Reason, Motivated, Subconscious

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