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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Dad, I really want to become an actor, but if this is what it's all about, I don't want to do it.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		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'.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		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.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		I didn't worry about what DeNiro thought... I went in, looked him in the eye, and got the part. I was confident, even though I'd never done anything like it before. Now I realise it was ignorant confidence-I had no idea.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		I hate it... I feel that when I see myself and these other cute faces, I'm just part of this meat factory.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		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.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		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.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		I rejected it many times because I thought it was just another commercial film. Sharon Stone and everything. But then, with one day to decide, I said, 'OK'. I like Sam Raimi and this character's really funny and cool.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		I was expecting a little more from ol' Sharon y'know? I wasn't about to get down and dirty with her, so it was a bit of a let down. Actually, she hurt my lip.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		I wasn't sure at first-I didn't want to run around in tights, swinging a sword.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people (Romeo and Juliet) took a chance and they did it. We don't have the balls that Romeo did.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		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.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		It was closer to manual labor than shooting a film. I always think of something Michael Caton-Jones told me: 'Pain is temporary. Film is forever.'
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		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. I'm not really sure who I am-it seems I change every day.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.
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Vote: Vote +1 Vote -1		When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie.
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Biography
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born Monday, November 11, 1974), is an American actor.

He was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of George DiCaprio and Irmalin Idenbirkin. His name allegedly came about because his pregnant mother was standing in front of a Leonardo da Vinci painting at a museum in Italy when he kicked, which made her decide to name him after the famous artist.

Leo's father, a distributor of comic books, is Italian-American and his mother, a former legal secretary, is German. His parents divorced when he was a year old. He grew up in Echo Park. At age five, he appeared on his favorite TV series, Romper Room, and was almost fired for misbehaving. He attended John Marshall High School in Los Angeles.

He was rejected by an agent early in his career for having a name that sounded too foreign, suggesting that it should be changed to Lenny Williams, but DiCaprio refused.

His acting career began in 1990 when he was cast in the role of Garry Buckman on the TV version of the hit film Parenthood, where he met his best friend Tobey Maguire while working on an episode. In that same year, DiCaprio appeared on the soap opera Santa Barbara in the role of Mason Capwell (in flashbacks as a teenager). From 1991 to 1992, he had the role of Luke Brower, a homeless boy, on Growing Pains.

DiCaprio is most famous for his roles in theatrical motion pictures. His debut role was as Josh in Critters 3 (1991). His break-through came with the role of Toby in This Boy's Life (1993) co-starring with Robert De Niro and Ellen Barkin, which led the New York Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics to name him runner-up for Best Supporting Actor. He portrayed a mentally retarded boy so convincingly in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) that some people thought he really was.

The black-and-white movie Don's Plum, a low-budget drama featuring the actor and some of his friends, including Tobey Maguire, making crude jokes while hanging out in a Los Angeles diner, was filmed in 1995-1996. Its release was later blocked in the U.S. and Canada by DiCaprio and Maguire, who argued they never intended to make a theatrical feature. It premiered February 10, 2001 in Berlin and Variety called it an "unpleasant and tedious ensembler." DiCaprio also played the male lead in Romeo + Juliet (1996), a very updated modern day version of Shakespeare's play.

The move from star to superstar came when DiCaprio played Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997). The highest grossing movie ever, it tied with Ben-Hur (1959) for receiving the most Academy Awards, though DiCaprio himself was not nominated (The Return of the King (movie)|The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King would later match Ben Hur and Titanics eleven Oscars).

In 1994, DiCaprio was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for What's Eating Gilbert Grape. He was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for What's Eating Gilbert Grape; Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for Titanic; and Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for Catch Me If You Can (2002), which co-starred Tom Hanks.

DiCaprio sued Playgirl to stop the New York-based monthly magazine from publishing unauthorized photos of him in its July 1998 issue. Some reports claim the photos were secretly taken while the actor was lounging in the nude, while others say they came from stills of his nude scenes in, or from outtakes of, the movie Total Eclipse. The case was settled June 29, 1998 for an undisclosed amount.

Recently, DiCaprio has taken to political issues. He is especially fond of the environment.

DiCaprio most recently starred in the critically acclaimed film The Aviator directed by Martin Scorsese, portraying the eccentric Howard Hughes. He was nominated and won the Best Actor award (Drama) at the Golden Globes 2005.

He is currently seeing and resides with Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen.

Filmography

* Critters 3 (1991)
* Poison Ivy (1992)
* This Boy's Life (1993)
* What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
* The Foot Shooting Party (1994) (short subject)
* A Hundred and One Nights of Simon Cinema (1995)
* The Quick and the Dead (1995)
* The Basketball Diaries (1995)
* Total Eclipse (1995)
* Romeo + Juliet (1996)
* Marvin's Room (1996)
* Titanic (1997)
* The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
* Celebrity (1998)
* The Beach (2000)
* Don's Plum (2001)
* Gangs of New York (2002)
* Catch Me If You Can (2002)
* The Aviator (2004)
* The Departed (2006) (currently filming)
* The Chancellor Manuscript (2006) (currently announced start of production)

...(more on Wikipedia)
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