Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

As an actor, you need to be versatile. You need to challenge yourself.

As an actor, you should be willing to take challenges.

I'd quite like to try all sorts of different things, whether it be theatre, TV or film.

Any actor has their moments of being stressed, but the great part about this job is that it's so unpredictable, and that's what I like. I love spontaneity. I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5.

When people ask, 'What role are you dying to play?' I always say, 'The one being written for me right now.'

As an actor, you don't know what is going to come next.

When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

The good thing about helping an actor create a performance is, you really don't know how you're going to do it. It's a challenge every time you get to the set. That keeps the energy flowing all the time.

On 'Silver Linings Playbook,' David O. Russell is the master at getting his actors to give him something that he doesn't expect. He loves to keep things spontaneous. He talks to the actors throughout a take because, in real life, you don't know what the next person is going to say; you don't know when you're going to get interrupted.

You can't really plan with acting!

Acting has always been instinctive to me.

The best thing about theatre is that every time we get onstage, the show is new.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

I've always believed acting is an improvisational art form, even when not a single line is changed. I mean, the behavior should always be improvised. My favorite moments in any performance are when I'm just along for the ride; when I'm surprising myself. I know when I'm done and I think to myself, 'Gee, I didn't see that coming,' I've done well.

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

I'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.

You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

It's all about story and character with me, and I don't care if the job is on daytime or prime time or the web. Hey, give me a good character and someone to listen, and I'll do my acting on a street corner.

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.