Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, 'That's my dad!'

It's truly an honor to get to write Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman and all those great people, but when you can take something that's not well thought of and make it something that people do think highly of, that's much more gratifying, I think.

After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.

When you get a chance to step back, you notice all these great things you've done and all these great people that you've worked with.

My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.

You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?

I love showcasing my talents - not only to my hometown fans and my own team but to the world.

That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way.

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

I, also, found the opportunity to work with the actors extremely gratifying and rewarding.

I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying.

My proudest moment was the number 'Reviewing the Situation.' I suspect that, because I gave my all to the role and because I was working with such a fine team of people, it inhibited my future career.

I knew I'd just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that's not your background and to pull it off and to think that we've done something that's really special.

It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

I would like to have won a Tony, I guess, because I have always thought of myself as a theater person. But I've won my share of awards, so I don't worry about it.

I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!

I don't display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home.

I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience.

Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.