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.
Interpretation
The quote expresses Leonardo DiCaprio's distinction between his professional acting life and personal identity.
In this quote, Leonardo DiCaprio asserts that he does not allow his acting roles to influence his personal life. He emphasizes the importance of detaching from his characters and maintaining a clear boundary between his work as an actor and his true self, highlighting the integrity and authenticity he prioritizes in both his career and personal life.
In practice
In a discussion about the challenges of maintaining one's identity in a professional setting, this quote could highlight the importance of personal integrity.
Mozambique is having an economic resurgence but still four out of 10 people there have HIV or AIDS...There's astounding conditions but what I was left with...was the power of the human spirit there and the fact these people have been through so much and they were still dancing in the streets
The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it. As for myself, I'm not really sure who I am. I change every day.
My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.
I lived in Hollywood and, ironically, I didn't know you could just go out and get an agent and go on auditions and try and become an actor, I thought it was like a Masonic thing, like a blood line you had to belong to β until I was 13. Then I realised what you had to do. It is the one thing I know I want to do for the rest of my life.
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.
Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future.
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.
I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.
I see myself as a perennial expatriate because, frankly, I don't think I fit comfortably in any conventional form of filmmaking, and I feel at the same time, depending on the project, I fit into many different ones.
'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.
In a clown, we see what we do that makes us laugh and cry. I kept the white face, the tradition of the Pierrot. My clown became a romantic and stylized figure. I wanted to be an abstract and concrete figure, a symbol of humanity.
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