DiCaprio: "The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it. It's a great outlet. As for myself, I'm not sure who I am. It seems that I change every day."

DiCaprio: "You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition."

DiCaprio: "I really hate relaxing. I've done three movies in a row, worked for two years straight, and to me, idle time is the devil's workshop. I like to focus on something."

DiCaprio: "I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual."

DiCaprio: "It's always this grand search in the industry to find good material. Whenever there is good material, they all jump on it, and it's like a food fight to get it made. That's why so many things take years and years to develop because it all shows up on screen."

DiCaprio: "What I would do in order to be popular was, I'd put myself on line and joke around and be funny, and I was always known as the crazy kid."

DiCaprio: "Hollywood is a very volatile place where artists come in, and they essentially say they want to belong. It's incredibly vulnerable to be an actor and also get criticism at a young age when you're formulating who you are. We've seen a lot of people fall victim to that, and it's very unfortunate."

DiCaprio: "When I was young, I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything. I used to think, 'How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?"

DiCaprio: "I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life."

DiCaprio: "I did imitations of anyone who came to my parents' house, and that was my identity at school - if there were ten minutes to lunch, and the teacher was done with the lesson, he'd say, 'Okay, Leo, get up there and do something.'"

DiCaprio: "I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role."

DiCaprio: "I'm not really the quiet type, although some people think I am. But I'm the rebel type in the sense that I don't think I'm like everyone else."

DiCaprio: "As a kid, I was going to be a marine biologist or an actor. When I became successful as an actor, I said, 'Well, maybe I can lend a voice to this with an equal passion.' You realize how lucky we are and how destructive we've been and what little regard we have for the natural world."

DiCaprio: "I think I will always feel like an outsider."

DiCaprio: "I've been very lucky to have achieved a lot of the things that I dreamt of achieving as a young man. But, at the end of the day - and I truly believe this - it is not about achieving great wealth or success. Because they don't bring happiness, ultimately."

DiCaprio: "Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling."

DiCaprio: "I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did."

DiCaprio: "Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'."

DiCaprio: "Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to afford this and that. Acting seemed to be a shortcut out of the mess."

DiCaprio: "I don't have emotions about a lot of things. I rarely get angry, I rarely cry. I guess I do get excited a lot, but I don't get sad and enormously happy. I think a lot of people who talk about all that crap are lying. Right now I'm just trying to maintain happiness - that's all I really care about. Anyway, when you're my age and your hormones are kicking in, there's not much besides sex that's on your mind."

DiCaprio: "Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever."

DiCaprio: "I can remember getting rejected systematically by casting directors as a young kid. I felt like the biggest outsider there ever was; that I'd never belong in that club.

DiCaprio: "I am not of the vein of actors - and I will not pretend to be one - that takes my character home with me. I don't."

DiCaprio: "I am trying to do the best work I possibly can and making movies that will have resonance for years to come. I think if you try for an Oscar or a goal like that, the more people are going to see it as transparent. It's not on my radar. If it happens, great, but I'm happy to continue working as I am, really."

DiCaprio: "Hopefully I've gotten better as an actor as the years have gone on, but the type of work I want to do has never changed."

DiCaprio: "I don't ask other actors questions. I think that's too intrusive. I just watch. I don't want to be constricted to an idea of what acting is by anyone else. I want to take my own education."

DiCaprio: "I was a bit of a loudmouth, and I was in an environment where the elements aligned to have kids smack the hell outta me once in a while."

DiCaprio: "I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating."

DiCaprio: "Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion."

DiCaprio: "I've always been a slow starter. My first date was with a girl called Cessi. We had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer, and then when we met, I couldn't look her in the eye."

DiCaprio: "I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone."

DiCaprio: "I don't watch anything of mine much. I haven't gone to drama school, or college, either. I just like to watch other actors in action. I learned so much from working with De Niro. I'd be in a scene with him where I was supposed to be acting, and I was just watching."

DiCaprio: "I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now."

DiCaprio: "I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor."

DiCaprio: "School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn."

DiCaprio: "As soon as enough people give you enough compliments and you're wielding more power than you've ever had in your life, it's not that you become an arrogant little prick, or become rude to people... but you get a false sense of your own importance and what you've accomplished. You actually think you've altered the course of history."

DiCaprio: "Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act."

DiCaprio: "I have very little fashion sense, and to tell you the truth, I give it very little thought. I dress to be as comfortable as I possibly can. Most of my clothing is either black, grey, or dark blue, and I don't really wear a lot of colours. But I do like jackets. I have a little bit of an obsession with them."

DiCaprio: "My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go."

DiCaprio: "People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes - what they want is to see you fall. ... I think people read the tabloids because they want to see you eating a burger, or out of your makeup or doing something stupid because they just want to see that you're like everyone else. And that's okay. I don't want to catch myself anymore saying that my life is hard, because the good far outweighs the bad in my life. And it's easier to focus on those things, on the things that are important."

DiCaprio: "I have a production company,; I have a foundation. I have a lot of responsibilities. Not family - just a lot of responsibilities."

DiCaprio: "The bottom line is, when it comes to an actor and his performance, whether nominated or not, it simply has to do with whether that character had enough resonance with the audience. You know, to the filmgoers. And that something that you can't control."

DiCaprio: "I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

DiCaprio: "As a young boy, I was obsessed with endangered species and the extinct species that men killed off. Biology was the subject in school that I was incredibly passionate about."

DiCaprio: "I've been a pretty lucky man."

DiCaprio: "I get unhappy doing things that I'm not passionate about. Because I feel like I'm squandering this incredible gift I've been given to finance films. As soon as my name alone was enough to make this happen, I vowed to myself that I was going to work with directors who were changing cinema, doing something important, you know?"

DiCaprio: "If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay."

DiCaprio: "I love being immersed in nature, going to places in the world that are pristine and untouched by man. It's almost a religious experience when you go to a place like the Amazon, and there's no civilisation for thousands of miles."

DiCaprio: "I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera."

DiCaprio: "School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn. Math is just the worst. To this day, I can't concentrate on it. People always say, 'You should have tried harder.' But actually, I cheated a lot because I could not sit and do homework."

DiCaprio: "If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people."

DiCaprio: "I don't think anyone really gets used to being recognized around the world. It kind of feels like a videogame at times, especially with paparazzi and people following you and things of that nature. But it's part of who I am now."

DiCaprio: "I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies."

DiCaprio: "I don't know if I'm more confident than ever before, because I definitely had confidence when I was starting out. Maybe I have less confidence now that I did then."

DiCaprio: "The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out."

DiCaprio: "I've never done drugs. That's because I saw this stuff literally every day when I was 3 or 4 years old."

DiCaprio: "With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn't happened to me yet."

DiCaprio: "I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy."

DiCaprio: "Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other - they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other."

DiCaprio: "To be honest, I'm not really prepared to do a musical, simply because I think I have a pretty atrocious voice.

DiCarpio: "I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.