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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.

  • To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.

  • I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?

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

  • I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.

  • My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers.

  • 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.

  • I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship.

  • Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstanding.

  • When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.

  • The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.

  • I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.

  • Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

  • Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.

  • You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

  • Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.

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

  • I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.

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

  • I am friends with Demi. Don't believe anything you read.

  • Some people don't get it when I'm being sarcastic.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • My dad has always been the bohemian...

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I like doing things that scare me. I went bungee jumping, but sky diving is just the sickest thing.

  • I watch a lot of Turner Classic movies. But I don't do private screenings. I don't have the old school, reel to reel projectors. I do have a big screen TV, though.

  • 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.

  • We must set an example now and move environmentalism from being the philosophy of a passionate minority ... to a way of life that automatically integrates ecology into governmental policy and normal living standards.

  • I have never been a fashionista or someone who puts a lot of thought into what I wear, and I dress to be as comfortable as I possibly can.

  • I'm shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I'm fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious.

  • Kate Winslet also happens to be one of my close friends who I goof off with like crazy. It was a reunion of two people who, I guess, are a little bit older, a tiny bit wiser but ultimately were the same as they were when they were 21.

  • I'm open to doing any kind of role and any kind of genre as long as it's interesting and as long as I feel it could be a great character to play. I never take into my own personal opinions or my own public image into account when I chose movie roles.

  • 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?'

  • The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult.

  • We actually did a lot of takes on this movie [J. Edgar Hoover ]. I never left the set wanting more. That's for sure. I don't know. This was a very difficult character for me and a lot of the other actors here, and at times we went and did 8 or 9 or 10 takes on a single day.

  • I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.

  • I've changed. You can't help it. Your mind starts working in a different way. You feel really scrutinised by people.

  • If you can unify the public mind saving an iconic species like the tiger, like they did with the panda, that means you have to protect their habitat and everything that they hunt. And that means saving massive, thousands of acres for them to be able to roam and breed. So it's more of a land effort.

  • It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets that J. Edgar Hoover was able to obtain and keep for such a long period of time would be possible in today's world, with the Internet and WikiLeaks.

  • I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.

  • 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.

  • Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea that you could see someone tomorrow and she could be the love of your life? It's very romantic.

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

  • Since I was very young I've been fascinated with nature and I actually wanted to be a marine biologist when I was very young. That was a great passion of mine. So I suppose in the off season when I'm not making movies, I became more and more active as an environmentalist trying to be more vocal about issues that I felt were important.

  • Marty [Scorsese] knows that when an improvised moment comes out of a real situation, it's gonna have more life and more going on than anything you can imagine and that's how the character can become the story

  • My mother is a walking miracle.

  • 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

  • These types of films that are psychologically sort of dark at times, I find extremely exciting to do because there's always something to think about. There's nothing more boring than to show up on set and say a line and know that your character means exactly what they say. It's interesting to have an unreliable narrator in a film and that's what both of those films have been.

  • I'll just be the first to say that Ken [Watanabe] should be a national treasure in Japan, because he is an unbelievably talented actor. You couldn't find more of a gentleman. He's sweet, he's kind and he's extremely thoughtful in the work that he does.

  • I like girls who are intelligent, somewhat funny, and pretty with a nice personality.

  • I created my foundation as a result of that and my website, and I try to shed some light on some very topical issues right now. The idea is to try to get people to become obviously more knowledgeable about the issue and try to get corporations and individuals to contribute to these nonprofit organizations.

  • 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.

  • 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.'

  • The pain is temporary, the film is forever

  • The things that you did with parents, whether it was spending every Sunday morning with your dad and eating French toast and watching Popeye, or decorating the Christmas tree with our mother - these are memories that help you be happy.

  • We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

  • As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.

  • My first date was with a girl named Cessi. We'd had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer long. Then she came home and we met to go out for the first time to the movies. When I saw her I was petrified. I couldn't even look her in the eye to talk to her.

  • I went out last night and all the girls ignored me

  • Whatever I did would be something they'd already done. I mean, my Dad would welcome it if I got a nose ring

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.

  • 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.

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

  • I didn't even know what I did in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape'. I just went off with whatever I felt instinctually without a second thought.

  • Sometimes I wonder will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago.

  • Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me, I don't know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I'm a weirdo.

  • Most of the time I do feel like I need someone else when I'm alone. But I can still get by with just my own company and that makes me a stronger person.

  • Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in the state of sleep when our subconscious, or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things.

  • Now is the time to divest and invest to let our world leaders know that we, as individuals and institutions, are taking action to address climate change, and we expect them to do their part this December in Paris at the U.N. climate talks.

  • [Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the screenplay and that's rarely something that can be remedied if it's simply not there by the time you shoot the film. Thank God we had that.

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

  • It's a weird feeling when people are defining you, and you haven't even defined yourself.

  • Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him.

  • I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.

  • It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!

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

  • (Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying.

  • A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends.

  • A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.

  • And now it's your turn - the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now.

  • As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way.

  • As an actor, you're constantly searching for that great character. Also, being a history buff and learning about people in our past and amazing things that they've done, I came across a book about Howard Hughes and he was set up as basically, the most multi-dimensional character I could ever come across. Often, people have tried to define him in biographies, but no one seems to be able to categorize him.

  • As far as my own dreams, I'm not a big dreamer, I think obviously we suppress things in life, emotions and thoughts, and we should wake up and look at that.

  • At first glance, you read something on the page and it can seem one way, and you can have your decisions before you wind up on set about what that set is supposed to mean, but until you're actually there doing them, there's really no way to understand it.

  • At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.

  • At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing is, you'll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man.

  • Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels.

  • Dark green is my favorite color. It's the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss!

  • Doing what we do [filming], you have to be your own critic and judge and adjudicate as to what you do and how it turned out.

  • 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'.

  • Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

  • Fame is not the worst thing. I went to dinner the other night, and the girls in the restaurant ignored me. It was so annoying.

  • For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.

  • From an outsider's perspective, it's amazing what [Clint Eastwood] does. If he's not directing a film, he's acting in it, or rather he's composing the music for that film. His commitment to what he does is astounding for all of us to witness. It's inspiring, actually.

  • Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity... We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet.

  • Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.

  • I always wanted to be an actor and I'd never dreamt that not only would I be able to do this for a living, but also on top of that I'd be able to choose and steer the course of my own career.

  • I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of doing a specific genre or because it's the time or place to do a different type of movie. I think that would be a huge mistake.

  • I am not a scientist, but I don't need to be.

  • I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I was sort of a little biologist when I was younger. I watched documentaries on rainforest pollution and the loss of species and habitats for animals around the world. It affected me in a very hardcore, emotional way when I was younger. So, later in life I wanted to continue that path more and investigate and learn more about ecological issues.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I don't think my parents would be shocked about anything I did, because they're so laid-back.

  • I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to the, obviously, the individual.

  • I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.

  • I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand your gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you.. to make each day count.

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