Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

Robert Lindsay is a legend, he can do anything. Sing, dance, make you laugh. I was in awe of him on 'Hornblower.'

Denzel's all about the work. He's all about the acting. He's an actor. He'll tell you himself, 'I'm not a movie star, celebrity, something else. I'm an actor.' He steps on a set, that's what he is, and that's what he gives you. He gives his heart.

I always do one film at a time.

Laurence Fishburne - he's a great actor, but he dances and sings, too? He can just do everything.

I'm all about working. I'm a really hard worker, and I'm taking advantage of all those different opportunities, on the music and acting side, because I love both.

I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.

I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft.

Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

As an actor, I'll play anything.

You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.

If you want to direct, you've got to work.

I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

I never lost my appetite for acting.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I've always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.

I'm a working musician, so it's what I do. I kind of always have lots of plates spinning, and it's the ones that keep spinning the longest that I end up doing.

There are lots of great actresses who are great because they'll do anything.

I have immense admiration for the writer/directors and director/actors who just seamlessly do both jobs at the same time.

Acting has always been my passion and will remain so.

The world can make an actor feel overly important. What I do isn't hard work. It's not ditch digging - which I have done, for one summer. Of course there are times when your fuel tank's low, but even on the hardest days, you are on a film set. You are doing something creative.

Believe me, if anybody has a job and starts at 9, there's no reason why they can't get up at 4:30 or five and write for a couple of hours, and give their employers their second-best effort of the day - which is what I did.

My career aspirations as an actor have always been driven foremost by the creative desire to be versatile.

Most actors can't write. Most writers can't act. Most comedians can't act. I can do all three, so why wouldn't I do that?