Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

There's was no pressure on it for me - I just went in and had fun. Whatever Jason Moore, the director, asked me to do, I did it! I ran around the room acting like a crazy guest on "Jerry Springer" and yelling at the audience. I just went for it.

The process of acting, not necessarily the business of acting, but the actual doing of it in the moment is my greatest kind of personal passion, the thing that brings me alive the most. Also, my two children.

Acting is like sex. You should just do it and not talk about it.

As an actor, there was that freedom of not having to worry about lights or marks or other people. It was just going out there and having fun with the character.

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

Acting is an emotion which has to be felt. Some feel it, some don't!

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

I love to act, I've always wanted to be an actor. I think that acting and fiction go nicely together - being able to visualize language as something you perform, not just something that's there on the page.

Acting is different all the time. When you're on set, different films, or just even in between, it's never the same. I think that's one of the things I love about it.

I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do it.

Acting is everything to me and it's at the core of every decision. Whatever importance costumes, details, lights, camera, dialogue and everything else have, if the acting is bad, cheap, or overdone everything else is just gone.

As an actress I really like exploring and doing new experiences.

I'd always thought that acting was, like, you had to work really hard, you had to change the way you walked, you talked, and all of that. But that's not acting. That's shmacting.

When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.

I think if you're doing a play, you're rehearsing enough that you get to a point where it's freeing again. But in a movie, if you rehearse too much, now you've just shown everybody what you're going to do. And any element of surprise or impulsiveness is taken away.

I've been given lots of great advice, in my life. As an actor, just being as honest and as present as you can be.

It is obvious when an actor has put work into prep and research and understanding their character, and they're making choices, because that's what happens when you take the time - or have the time - to really think about the material, but that only accounts for about 60% of what happens on the day. When you're in the moment, you throw it all away. Well, you don't throw it all away, but it's in you now, and everything is reactionary in that moment and you have to be honest and present and listening.

Acting is a weird thing. You've gotta do it to get better, and you've gotta try things to grow.

I come from the world of improv; I love any show or any vehicle that gives me an opportunity to be in the moment.

Theatre gives you wings as an actor.

For me, acting is doing.

I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Doing a scene truthfully is very similar to doing a song truthfully. They're really parallel.