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. Leonardo DiCaprio More Quotes by Leonardo DiCaprio More Quotes From Leonardo DiCaprio At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing is, you'll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man. Leonardo DiCaprio careers hot men I insist on keeping a level head. I've maintained the same exact home life that I’ve had for 20 years. All I see is more people looking at me than before. But, you know, who cares? You just can't obsess yourself with this fame stuff. Leonardo DiCaprio home people years What I do is whatever it takes, it takes. Sometimes you see a scene right away and a take looks great so you might print that and you might print a couple more and take elements of all three. It just depends. You're looking for the highlights. You're looking for the best elements of the scene, but preferably you'd like to have one good take that would go all the way through. Leonardo DiCaprio three couple looks The more I've acted, I've realised that I have a) no control of and b) no way of really quite understanding how people react to anything I do, or any movie I do. Leonardo DiCaprio understanding people way It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go. Leonardo DiCaprio lap scripts land For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse. Leonardo DiCaprio climate-change economy ecosystems 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 pain forever thinking Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery Leonardo DiCaprio kissing discovery love-is I didn't even know what I did in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape'. I just went off with whatever I felt instinctually without a second thought. Leonardo DiCaprio second-thoughts grapes eating 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 vessel acting complicated I've never tried to reach a certain demographic of an audience or try to say: OK, now I'm going to do this type of film to transition myself into more adult roles. Or a romantic hero. Or whatever it may be. Leonardo DiCaprio adults hero trying I think it's much more interesting when people say, "I love being famous. I love the attention and getting laid and having people I respect admire me," than when they pretend it hasn't had an effect on them. Leonardo DiCaprio love-is people thinking 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 actors stories character One of my passions is to meet people and then imitate them. I love doing that. Leonardo DiCaprio my-passion passion people 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. Leonardo DiCaprio mistake trying thinking 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 care want fun It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin! Leonardo DiCaprio couple believe fall The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out. Leonardo DiCaprio first-kiss kissing girl I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances. Leonardo DiCaprio class kids school 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." Leonardo DiCaprio hearing middle doe