Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.

People say to me, 'Why do you do these ugly parts?' And it's because at the end of the day, I'm an actress, and I crave the dark and the light within one job.

Well, as an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

I don't sit around and wait for great parts. I'm an actress, and I love being one, and I'll probably be doing it till I'm 72, standing around the back lot doing 'Gunsmoke.'

My journey has been that of a character actor.

I'm always interested with other actors in what their process is, and are they still interested in acting, as opposed to being a star.

But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working.

I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.

I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.

When I did 'Clockers,' I didn't even think about having a career in acting, I just thought, 'Wow, this is cool. I get to do a little movie.'

I'd hate to lose the character actress part of me, because, by God, the parts are much more interesting.

When I began my journey in films, I never thought I'd be playing the lead in my films and was keen to move ahead with roles that give me scope to act.

My main agenda as an actor is just to spend time with my characters - I am really glad that the roles being offered to me is very versatile.

I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!

I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.

I really love being a character actor.

I'm still trying to figure myself out as an actor.

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.'

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

I have only really gotten by with playing versions of myself as most young actors do.

I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.

I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who made sense and paralleled my life a little bit. I feel like I'm one of the poster boys for a bad guy in a movie. I feel like I'm a good person to play a bad guy in a movie. I can say that.