340 Quotes by Leonardo DiCaprio

I've got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it's hard to live up to.

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.'

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.

It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.

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.

That's an inspiration for all women to see a woman thinking and moving differently from those around her.

I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.

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.

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.