Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.

They did cast me as an ingenue once, and the novelty was nice. But I said, 'There is nothing here to play!' I really like getting into the meat of a role.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

I'm an actor, and I keep observing people and their reactions to figure out what they are thinking. There's only so much you can do on your own, so you have to keep learning. Art imitates life.

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.

All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.

I work a lot; I love to compose, ponder, and take notes when preparing for a role. I cut all the scenes, collate the images, form the character and shape its personality, then I make meticulous notes and transcribe each scene on my notebook.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

Acting to me is always reacting.

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.

On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

It's just acting. I take acting seriously but up to a point.

I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.

A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

My only job is to act and play the character truthfully and honestly.

I like to prepare for my roles well, so you can call me a method actor to an extent.

A lot of time, the characters I've played in the past kind of come out in me in situations when it's very useful.