As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
LEONARDO DAVINCI One day the world will look upon research on animals as it now looks upon research on human beings. ...
LEONARDO DAVINCI Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so ...
LEONARDO DAVINCI As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself...
LEONARDO DAVINCI Although human subtlety makes a variety of inventions by different means to the same end, it will ne...
LEONARDO DAVINCI Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more cl...
LEONARDO DAVINCI Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
LEONARDO DAVINCI Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just ...
LEONARDO DAVINCI The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee . . . gathers its mat...
LEONARDO DAVINCI Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
LEONARDO DAVINCI A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
LEONARDO DAVINCI Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of scienc...
LEONARDO DAVINCI When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for...
LEONARDO DAVINCI The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on ...
LEONARDO DAVINCI The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the ...
LEONARDO DAVINCI While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
LEONARDO DAVINCI As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
LEONARDO DAVINCI Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
LEONARDO DAVINCI Three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
LEONARDO DAVINCI Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it.
LEONARDO DAVINCI Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
LEONARDO DAVINCI Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgm...
LEONARDO DAVINCI Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.
LEONARDO DAVINCI As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is...
LEONARDO DAVINCI Every now and then go away and have a little relaxation. To remain constantly at work will diminish ...
LEONARDO DAVINCI Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.
LEONARDO DAVINCI The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
LEONARDO DAVINCI The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue...
LEONARDO DAVINCI I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
LEONARDO DAVINCI You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
LEONARDO DAVINCI The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
LEONARDO DAVINCI Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
LEONARDO DAVINCI Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does ...
LEONARDO DAVINCI Time stays long enough for those who use it.
LEONARDO DAVINCI I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts lon...
LEONARDO DAVINCI And Wisdom be the Daughter of Experience
LEONARDO DAVINCI The bottom line is, when it comes to an actor and his performance, whether nominated or not, it simp...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO What will you put in the stocking of the Baby Jesus? screenwriter of The Bishop's Wife with Cary Gra...
LEONARDO BERCOVICI People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. Th...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.
LEONARDO SCIASCIA My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other-they can sit in a room and be together...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of sa...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I was a bit of a loudmouth, and I was in an environment where the elements aligned to have kids smac...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I love being immersed in nature, going to places in the world that are pristine and untouched by man...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I've been very lucky to have achieved a lot of the things that I dreamt of achieving as a young ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn. Ma...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods w...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO As a kid, I was going to be a marine biologist or an actor. When I became successful as an actor, I ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at clim...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to b...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the gi...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO If a studio is going to offer me the opportunity to invite my mother and grandmother and all my frie...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I really hate relaxing. I've done three movies in a row, worked for two years straight, and to m...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slowe...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the s...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I think I will always feel like an outsider.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I have very little fashion sense, and to tell you the truth, I give it very little thought. I dress ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me, I don't know if people are staring because they reco...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO My mother is a walking miracle.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the en...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I can remember getting rejected systematically by casting directors as a young kid. I felt like the ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO To be honest, I'm not really prepared to do a musical, simply because I think I have a pretty at...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I am trying to do the best work I possibly can and making movies that will have resonance for years ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I took some time off after 'Titanic' because I needed to let the dust settle and recharge my...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I had a period when I was sixteen where I started to get a big head. I was going through puberty, an...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO If you have the ability to convince somebody of something that you don't necessarily think is th...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a defor...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO There are a lot of directors I'd still love to work with. Paul Thomas Anderson is someone I'...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I don't watch anything of mine much. I haven't gone to drama school, or college, either. I j...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I've never tried to reach a certain demographic of an audience or try to say, 'OK, now I'...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I like stories in specific time periods. 'The Revenant's' era of American history was fa...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I haven't died in a movie in a while,'The Departed,' 'Body of Lies,' 'Revolu...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO We'll let the voters make the determination about the impact of this. It's unlikely he'll eat into o...
LEONARDO ALCIVAR Ours is not a race to compete dollar for dollar with Ed Rendell. Ours is a race to ensure that we ha...
LEONARDO ALCIVAR The lieutenant governor is a man of his word. He will fulfill his commitment to deliver a memo on th...
LEONARDO ALCIVAR It speaks to the fact that today's Democratic Party is so out of the mainstream, it has moved so far...
LEONARDO ALCIVAR We have no reason to suspect this was anything other than, well, a burglary.
LEONARDO ALCIVAR We certainly welcome anyone into this race, but the frank reality is when it comes to changing Penns...
LEONARDO ALCIVAR I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of sa...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I have to say that whatever decisions I make, I really do think that movie making is a director'...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO It's always this grand search in the industry to find good material. Whenever there is good mate...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO As a young boy, I was obsessed with endangered species and the extinct species that men killed off. ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these peop...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I don't ask other actors questions. I think that's too intrusive. I just watch. I don't ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a w...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Whatever I did would be something they'd already done. I mean, my Dad would welcome it if I got a no...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I did imitations of anyone who came to my parents' house, and that was my identity at school - i...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO There is a lot of speculation about what women are attracted to, and there are a lot of misconceptio...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstandin...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who kn...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Anyone I'm with has to give me freedom. I like to be with someone who has character and style and so...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO The Italian industry has been waiting for months for measures to slow the imports of Chinese footwea...
LEONARDO SOANA Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, pr...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I remember reading the book in high school and always thinking of Gatsby as this strong, stoic, suav...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Pride is the veil that blinds the eyes of the soul.
LEONARDO RAMIREZ I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I wasn't sure at first-I didn't want to run around in tights, swinging a sword.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Life is short. Don't waste it being comfortable.
LEONARDO CAPILI When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO 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 li...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Then I saw Keanu Reeves in 'Much Ado About Nothing' and I know if he can do it, I can do it too...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life ex...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately... It's been a much slower proc...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Aviator.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Growing up in this business and truly wanting to be a part of the world of film, I'm a truly privile...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I don't think my parents would be shocked about anything I did, because they're so laid-back.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO It was the simple fact that there was probably not a cooler character on earth that I could play...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I am friends with Demi. Don't believe anything you read.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO It's my first sort of commercial attempt, but it made sense for me because I'm not that kind of guy ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO That's the cool part of the business, going to different countries with your friends and having ever...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I'd definitely say that when I'm alone with a girl, I'm doing the baby voices, all that stuff, rubbi...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO When I was young, I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything. I used to think, 'How ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO We're not the hippie family who only eats organic and the children meditate and go to school of the ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I went out last night and all the girls ignored me.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I was dreading winning. I didn't even plan a speech-I was worried that I would slip up or do somethi...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extin...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more danger...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Dad, I really want to become an actor, but if this is what it's all about, I don't want to do it.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I remember the 'Checkered Demon'. He's this little devil with this three-foot dong that just porks e...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Playing Arnie was fun because everything I did was spontaneous.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I didn't worry about what DeNiro thought... I went in, looked him in the eye, and got the part. I wa...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO It was closer to manual labor than shooting a film. I always think of something Michael Caton-Jones ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I've changed. You can't help it. Your mind starts working in a different way. You feel really scruti...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO The main thing for me is to just live life with my family and friends. They treat me like Leo, not l...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO My mother is a walking miracle...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO When I grew up, I lived in the ghettos of Hollywood; it was the most disgusting place to be. I was k...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Water, will flow, so will time, don't try to swim back up because time will win, like a raging river...
LEONARDO SANABRIA When you are in the bottom of that dark pitch black well you have to look up and see that there is a...
LEONARDO SANABRIA I've just got to maintain my passion for what I do.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I was expecting a little more from ol' Sharon y'know? I wasn't about to get down and dirty with her,...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the gi...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO A good leader does not sit down and wait for results, that's a boss. A leader will share the pain,sw...
LEONARDO SANABRIA School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I like doing things that scare me. I went bungee jumping, but sky diving is just the sickest thing.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I always feel like I'm on a roller-coaster, but I never want to get off! There's a certain high you'...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Global warming is not only the No. 1 environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most impo...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.
LEONARDO 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 al...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Most of the time I do feel like I need someone else when I'm alone. But I can still get by with just...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO This is my first long-term relationship... and I can't wait to see her at the end of the day. She's ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. Th...
LEONARDO 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...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO My God, no! I hate this whole hunk thing! I feel when I see myself in that, and these other cute fac...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardles...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me, I don't know if people are staring because they recogniz...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I certainly don't eat raw bison liver on a regular basis.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Considering all that's happened in my life, I feel like I'm a pretty levelheaded person that...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Hollywood is a very volatile place where artists come in, and they essentially say they want to belo...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I have a production company,; I have a foundation. I have a lot of responsibilities. Not family - ju...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to af...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Identity was a liquid state, ever interchangeable, and adaptable to its surroundings... It was bette...
LEONARDO DONOFRIO I've always been a slow starter. My first date was with a girl called Cessi. We had a beautiful ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I've gotten to go to far-off places in the world, have very unique, isolated, intense experience...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I get unhappy doing things that I'm not passionate about. Because I feel like I'm squanderin...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It&...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Identity was just a box people liked to put themselves in, a mast to tether to in a storm, a securit...
LEONARDO DONOFRIO We want to invite the public to the ceremony at the police station, so hopefully family and friends ...
LARRY LEONARDO It was one of the things that I decided needed to be done. Volunteers work behind the scenes, and a ...
LARRY LEONARDO