A biography for Leonardo DiCapriohasn’t been written yet.
“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 - you know what I mean?”
“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.”
“My mother is a walking miracle.”
“Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.”
“I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.”
“I don't watch anything of mine much. I haven't gone to drama school, or college, either. I just like to watch other actors in action. I learned so much from working with De Niro. I'd be in a scene with him where I was supposed to be acting, and I was just watching.”
“School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.”
“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?”
“When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.”
“I certainly don't eat raw bison liver on a regular basis.”
“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'.”
“I don't know if I'm more confident than ever before, because I definitely had confidence when I was starting out. Maybe I have less confidence now that I did then.”
“Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to afford this and that. Acting seemed to be a shortcut out of the mess.”
“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.”
“My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.”
“I can remember getting rejected systematically by casting directors as a young kid. I felt like the biggest outsider there ever was; that I'd never belong in that club.”
“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've never done drugs. That's because I saw this stuff literally every day when I was 3 or 4 years old.”
“A great white jumped into my cage when I was diving in South Africa. Half its body was in the cage, and it was snapping at me.”
“My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.”