Frases de Leonardo DiCaprio

“No veo por qué no puedo tener amigos de ambos sexos sin que se corran rumores. Es una locura.”

“Los hermanos no tienen por qué decirse nada el uno al otro, pueden sentarse en una habitación y estar juntos y simplemente estar completamente cómodos unos con otros.”

“¿Amor a primera vista? ¡Creo totalmente en eso! Tienes que tener fe. ¿A quién no le gusta la idea de que podría ver a alguien mañana y que podría ser el amor de su vida? Es muy romántico.”

“Lo bueno de actuar es que siempre te mantiene los pies en la tierra… No es como cualquier otro trabajo donde entras y haces lo mismo que ayer.”

“La mayoría de las veces me siento como si necesitase a alguien más cuando estoy solo. Pero todavía puedo conseguir mi propia compañía y eso me hace una persona más fuerte.”

“Tengo un amigo para viajar conmigo… Necesito a alguien que me trajera de vuelta a lo que soy. Es difícil estar solo.”

“Diversos mánagers y agentes me recomendaron encarecidamente cambiarme el nombre y adoptar otro americanizado, Lenny Williams, insultando a la vez mi herencia italiana y alemana.”

“En relación a los posibles efectos ecológicos del rodaje de La Playa: No he visto que contamináramos la playa en absoluto. Y he estado allí cada día para atestiguarlo. Esta polémica es meramente política. He visto a todo el mundo del equipo tomar el más meticuloso cuidado. Sacaron toneladas de porquería de la playa y al final la dejaron con mejor aspecto del que tenía”

“Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me. I don`t know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I`m a weirdo.”

“I like my name. My parents were in the Uffizi Gallery looking at a Leonardo Da Vinci when my mom felt me kick. That's how I got my name. My parents were real hippies.”

“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.”

“Well it's a risk to do a movie of this calibre on a subject matter and a point in history people are not very familiar with. It's a tough subject to sell - so salary-wise you have to make sacrifices to make a certain film happen. I would have been an idiot to pass up the opportunity to work with Mr Scorsese.”

“He's probably the world's most beautiful-looking man, yet he doesn't think that he's gorgeous. And to me, he's just smelly, farty Leo.
- Kate Winslet (Vanity Fair, January 1998)”

“Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.”

“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.”

“You learn after a while that it's not getting your face recognised that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered.”

“I'm not the sort of person who tries to be cool or trendy. I'm definitely an individual.”

“On whether there are any aspects of fame he dislikes: You kidding? I feel very fortunate. A lot of people would love to be in my position. There are so many people out there who are suffering trillions of times more than I could ever suffer, and would love to be me. I am a lucky little bastard.”

“And I love doing what I'm doing and I'd get out of it if I hated it that much. I've said it many times before: There are much worse problems in the world, people dealing with things that are phenomenally more complicated.”

“The main thing for me right now is just to live my life with my family and friends. They treat me like Leo, not 'Leonardo, Master Thespian'. That's all I need to keep my sanity.”

“I don't have the guts that Romeo did.”

“I’ve been in the business since I was 16, so I’ve had a 14-year career. I’ve always had acting in my blood. Doing this, whatever it is, was something I was drawn to since my earliest memories. Ironically, I lived in Hollywood, but never understood that all it took was getting an agent and being persistent.”

“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.”

“I don't have emotions about a lot of things. I rarely get angry, I rarely cry. I guess I do get excited a lot, but I don't get sad and enormously happy.”

“His two eyes are different," says Lasse Hallstrom, who directed Leo in what may be his best movie, What's Eating Gilbert Grape. "The left eye is very soft and empathetic. The right eye is more analyzing. One eye oozes warmth, while the other is more penetrating. One eye is psyche, the other is intellect.”

“I hate speaking in front of a large audience. I don't know where it came from…but its just this gut-wrenching fear of slipping up and doing something horrible.”

“I don't really have many extravagances. I don't fly private jets and I don't have bodyguards and I don't buy crazy things. I have a couple of houses here and there. I bought a very expensive watch, and I am going to buy a really expensive movie poster, the original for The Thief of Bagdad (1940). I love movie posters.”

“A lot of actors ask me “what do you do? How do you get into the business?” My only answer is don’t be discouraged. … You have to commit your life to it, almost, and never give up. It’s a cliché, but it’s true.”

“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?”

“I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.”

“Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.”

“If you hear of any incident about me - a fight, a change of clothes, a little extra gel in the hair, don't believe it till you talk to me.”

“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!”

“Dark green is my favorite color. It's the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss!”

“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.”

“My mom and I lived at Hollywood and Western, a drug-dealer and prostitute corner. It was pretty terrifying. I got beat up a lot. I saw people have sex in the alleys. I remember I was five years old, and this guy with a trench coat, needles and crack cornered me. Early on, seeing the devastation on my block, seeing heroin addicts, made me think twice about ever getting involved in drugs. It's evil. Once you take that step and experiment, drugs can take over your life. You are not yourself anymore. That's something I never wanted. I didn't have a lot of friends growing up. It was kind of just me and my parents. But because of them, the neighborhood did not have a bad effect on me. My dad introduced me to artists, and every few months we'd go to some hippie doo-dah parade as Mudmen in our underwear, carrying sticks and covered in mud. My mother did everything to get me into the best schools she could find.”

“It was pretty disheartening to be objectified like that. I wanted to stop acting for a little bit. But it changed my life in a lot of ways, but at the same time, I can't say that it didn't give me opportunities. It made me, for the first time, in control of my career.”