Quotes from Leonardo DiCaprio

I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.

People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes what they want is to see you fall.

Some people don't get it when I'm being sarcastic.

My friends have named me the person they least want to do extreme adventures with, because I always seem to be very close to being part of a disaster. If a cat has nine lives, I think I've used a few.

If you have the ability to convince somebody of something that you don't necessarily think is the case, it's a valuable asset. Not that I'm, like, a pathological liar, but we spend most of the day not fully being honest, you know?

To put a lot of hard work and effort into a project or character and for it to be recognised, how can it not be nice?

I like to prepare as much as possible beforehand, but there's definitely that element of fear when you're on set, and you have to be conscious of it and use that fear to drive you to work harder.

I am not of the vein of actors - and I will not pretend to be one - that takes my character home with me. I don't.

I've never done drugs. That's because I saw this stuff literally every day when I was 3 or 4 years old.

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered.

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.

I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

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.

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.

I am friends with Demi. Don't believe anything you read.

I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy.

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.

If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay.

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

That's the magic of moviemaking. You clearly identify one scenario with the other, and it's a completely different experience.

Anyone I'm with has to give me freedom. I like to be with someone who has character and style and someone who is very understanding.

What I would do in order to be popular was, I'd put myself on line and joke around and be funny, and I was always known as the crazy kid.

Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.