Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

Acting is therapeutic.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of catharsis every six months or so, and we go and be absolutely someone else.

I think when you're at your best as an actor, it is cathartic.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

It has been great portraying Gollum, but it will be great to see my face on screen for a change.

At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.

It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.

Acting's not particularly complicated. But the great thing is you can step into somebody else's shoes without dealing with the consequences. It's very therapeutic in that way.

I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

I've played a lot of bad guys, and I'm pretty good at leaving my work at the office. And I look at acting as having a certain sort of therapeutic nature to it.

Some actors say they don't know themselves at all, and that's why they act: because they can disappear into other people.

I can express the brooding part of myself on-screen. It's kind of fun to get to do the bratty things I really wouldn't do. And then I get to go back to my regular life.

We all have aspects of ourselves that we my not be aware of. Actors in particular - they have multiple personality disorder. They get paid a lot of money to exhibit that.

There are definitely things about acting that have helped me growing up and finding myself, but there are also things that make it a bit more difficult. I guess I do allow myself to explore more when I know that, at the end of the day, if I really wanted to, I could just play a different person all day and be fine with that.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.

I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.