110+ Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes On Climate Change, Success And Environment

Leonardo DiCaprio is an American actor and film producer. He is best known for his leading role in the 1997 romantic drama Titanic. He has gone on to star in many other successful films, such as The Aviator, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Inception. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Leonardo DiCaprio on love, climate change, success.

Top 10 Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

1. Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted.
2. 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.
3. If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.
4. When I was young I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything I used to think 'How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?'
5. 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.
6. Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.
7. My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.

Leonardo DiCaprio Image Quotes

My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio Short Quotes

• I like doing things that scare me. I went bungee jumping, but sky diving is just the sickest thing.
• School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.
• Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.
• A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends.
• You see, I think negative emotions are always trumped by positive emotions.
• My mother is a walking miracle.
• When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.
• There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind.
• It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.
• I like girls who are intelligent, somewhat funny, and pretty with a nice personality.

Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes About Love

Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea that you could see someone tomorrow and she could be the love of your life? It's very romantic. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I'm shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I'm fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them. — Leonardo DiCaprio

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

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

I hate complaining about paparazzi, I hate complaining about being recognised, because if I ultimately didn't want to be an actor or in the public eye, I would quit doing what I do. That's not the reason I do it, but I love the work so much that it's worth it. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery — Leonardo DiCaprio

(Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying. — Leonardo DiCaprio

It's a hard concept for me to wrap my head around to completely sacrifice any sort of love in your life, to never experience that on a personal level. — Leonardo DiCaprio

One of my passions is to meet people and then imitate them. I love doing that. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes About Climate Change

Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living. — Leonardo DiCaprio

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

Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels. — Leonardo DiCaprio

My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task. — Leonardo DiCaprio

And now it's your turn - the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now. — Leonardo DiCaprio

If we do not act together, we will surely perish. — Leonardo DiCaprio

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. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I am not a scientist, but I don't need to be. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Now is the time to divest and invest to let our world leaders know that we, as individuals and institutions, are taking action to address climate change, and we expect them to do their part this December in Paris at the U.N. climate talks. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes About Success

[Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the screenplay and that's rarely something that can be remedied if it's simply not there by the time you shoot the film. Thank God we had that. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success. — 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. — Leonardo DiCaprio

The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and I was happy. I don’t think that I will strive for money or success and end up greedy or big-headed. That only leads to unhappiness. I can still be down-to-earth and do this job as long as I enjoy it. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes About Environment

As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority. — Leonardo DiCaprio

We've been given this gift, our planet, and we've found no other place in the universe that we can inhabit. I want to do something to create radical change to help save it. It's our responsibility. — Leonardo DiCaprio

We must set an example now and move environmentalism from being the philosophy of a passionate minority ... to a way of life that automatically integrates ecology into governmental policy and normal living standards. — Leonardo DiCaprio

We must all move shoulder to shoulder in a unified front to show this administration that the true majority of people are willing to vote for a cleaner environment and won't back down. — Leonardo DiCaprio

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

I will fly around the world doing good for the environment. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes About Life

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life. — Leonardo DiCaprio

You have to enjoy life in the process. It may sound corny, but it's true. At the end of the day, we can't always achieve everything that we dream of but you do have to enjoy life in the process. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor. — Leonardo DiCaprio

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 — Leonardo DiCaprio

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

I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand your gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Like everything, personal relationships and all that stuff is sort of put on ice while you go off to your location for five or six months. So, do I feel more settled in my life and in my work? Absolutely, yeah. — Leonardo DiCaprio

My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II. — Leonardo DiCaprio

When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie. — Leonardo DiCaprio

My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes About Acting

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

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times. — 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

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

From an outsider's perspective, it's amazing what [Clint Eastwood] does. If he's not directing a film, he's acting in it, or rather he's composing the music for that film. His commitment to what he does is astounding for all of us to witness. It's inspiring, actually. — Leonardo DiCaprio

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

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act. — Leonardo DiCaprio

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes About People

It's a weird feeling when people are defining you, and you haven't even defined yourself. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Mozambique is having an economic resurgence but still four out of 10 people there have HIV or AIDS...There's astounding conditions but what I was left with...was the power of the human spirit there and the fact these people have been through so much and they were still dancing in the streets — 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

I remember when I first started having these interpretations of these images, these clichés of what movie stars are and this and that, and they're egomaniacal pricks and tyrants, but in general, for the most part, they're nice people to tell you the truth. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I think the environmental movement is the biggest people's movement in the world. Unfortunately, our governments and corporations haven't responded accordingly to protect our planet's natural resources. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I'm not really the quiet type, although some people think I am. But I'm the rebel type in the sense that I don't think I'm like everyone else. I try to be an individual. — Leonardo DiCaprio

When I grew up, I lived in the ghettos of Hollywood; it was the most disgusting place to be. I was known as the crazy little kid. I did impressions. Then I realized that's not what I want to do. I don't want to be a comedian to please other people. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people (Romeo and Juliet) took a chance and they did it. We don't have the balls that Romeo did. — Leonardo DiCaprio

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

Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes About Friends

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

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 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

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

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

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

Kate Winslet also happens to be one of my close friends who I goof off with like crazy. It was a reunion of two people who, I guess, are a little bit older, a tiny bit wiser but ultimately were the same as they were when they were 21. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes About Character

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'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. — Leonardo DiCaprio

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? — Leonardo DiCaprio

Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I'm not an actor who can just play the kid. — Leonardo DiCaprio

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. — Leonardo DiCaprio

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

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. — Leonardo DiCaprio

The truth of the matter is this - I never look for films specifically, because ultimately if the fundamentals of the character and the script and the director aren't there, it makes it a moot point. — Leonardo DiCaprio

We actually did a lot of takes on this movie [J. Edgar Hoover]. I never left the set wanting more. That's for sure. I don't know. This was a very difficult character for me and a lot of the other actors here, and at times we went and did 8 or 9 or 10 takes on a single day. — Leonardo DiCaprio

When I can't immediately define the character, and there's an element of mystery to it and still a lot to be explored, that's when I say yes. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio Famous Quotes And Sayings

My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Sometimes I wonder will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Dark green is my favorite color. It's the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss! — Leonardo DiCaprio

Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity... We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet. — Leonardo DiCaprio

A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other - they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other. — Leonardo DiCaprio

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

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

The things that you did with parents, whether it was spending every Sunday morning with your dad and eating French toast and watching Popeye, or decorating the Christmas tree with our mother - these are memories that help you be happy. — Leonardo DiCaprio

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

It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Right now, our mother -- our mother -- all of our mothers, Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future. You can help us win the battle to clean up our air, our water, our land, to protect our forests, our oceans and our wildlife. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious, or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been. I remember fragments of my dream, and I try to take a traditional sort of approach to researching this project and doing preparation for it. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I have no problem playing anyone who has different politics than me. In fact, I don't take that into consideration at all. You have to find something sympathetic in a man. It's that common ground you need to connect with someone. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart. — 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

The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult. — Leonardo DiCaprio

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. — Leonardo DiCaprio

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. — Leonardo DiCaprio

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

It's amazing to completely focus on something for four, five or six months, have it completely consume your life and be constantly thinking about somebody else's set of circumstances and how they would react to something. I find it fascinating. It's rewarding and on a professional and personal level. — Leonardo DiCaprio

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

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

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 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

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. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Since I was very young I've been fascinated with nature and I actually wanted to be a marine biologist when I was very young. That was a great passion of mine. So I suppose in the off season when I'm not making movies, I became more and more active as an environmentalist trying to be more vocal about issues that I felt were important. — Leonardo DiCaprio

The truth is that I've always been fascinated with wealth in America. To me, it's been about the American dream and the corruption of that dream. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I want to be the perfect child. I owe so much to my parents and the way I was brought up. — Leonardo DiCaprio

If you can unify the public mind saving an iconic species like the tiger, like they did with the panda, that means you have to protect their habitat and everything that they hunt. And that means saving massive, thousands of acres for them to be able to roam and breed. So it's more of a land effort. — Leonardo DiCaprio

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

I spent a long time in art school so I can really draw. I'll doodle and suddenly I'll find the beginning of the movie in one picture. Usually, I start my stuff on the telephone. Right by the telephone I've got a book of doodles. When I'm on the phone, I'll be doing a drawing eventually. — Leonardo DiCaprio

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. — Leonardo DiCaprio

What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction. — Leonardo DiCaprio

My first date was with a girl named Cessi. We'd had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer long. Then she came home and we met to go out for the first time to the movies. When I saw her I was petrified. I couldn't even look her in the eye to talk to her. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship. — Leonardo DiCaprio

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

Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him. — Leonardo DiCaprio

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

I've always kind of made sure to maintain the sense of who I am and never be mean or cruel or snotty to anyone. Because, at the end of the day, it's not going to help you last in the business, and who wants to be around someone like that? I don't want to turn into 'that guy.' That guy! — Leonardo DiCaprio

I always wanted to be an actor and I'd never dreamt that not only would I be able to do this for a living, but also on top of that I'd be able to choose and steer the course of my own career. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstanding. — Leonardo DiCaprio

As far as my own dreams, I'm not a big dreamer, I think obviously we suppress things in life, emotions and thoughts, and we should wake up and look at that. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Life Lessons by Leonardo DiCaprio

1. Leonardo DiCaprio has demonstrated that hard work and dedication can lead to success, no matter where you come from.
2. He has also shown that it is important to take risks and to never give up on your dreams.
3. Finally, he has shown that it is essential to be passionate about what you do and to use your platform for good.