Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

I enjoy working away from home as it gives me the space to really commit to the character.

I find it so all-encompassing when acting that there's no room for anything else when you're in it; you're just locked into thinking about it all day, you go to sleep with it, wake up with it, and when I come back, I really need time to recover.

Whenever I am acting, it's everything, you know. If I'm researching a role, I'm completely consumed in that and, between action and cut, I live in this suspended time.

I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

If I'm doing a scene that requires a lot of focus, I'll just take myself away and do what I have to do.

I stay in my bubble; I concentrate on the football. I work, and I try to learn English as quickly as possible.

I will do whatever I can to become the character. I have no right to distract the audience from the mood of the film.

What I'm trying to do is immerse myself.

When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

I took my play very seriously, and I got way, way lost in my play world.

Meisner technique was different than anything I'd ever experienced. It's a really great way to be accountable to your craft and to yourself, but also it takes that kind of focus and dedication to learn anything.

When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused.

After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.

Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.

I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

I can't do a role or character unless I have lived that character. For me, the best teacher is life.

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus.

I've played a prostitute now three times. I don't know how it's come about that way. It's just a matter of me growing up.

I think everybody's got different methods of working which suit the particular individual. Mine is to sort of play the part, and give 100%, to concentrate and focus on it while I'm actually working, but then leave it behind until the next day.

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.

I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that I'm acting.

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.