My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.
Interpretation
Your career should be shaped by your own desires and values rather than conforming to external expectations.
This quote by Leonardo DiCaprio suggests that individuals should take charge of their careers, ensuring that their professional paths align with their personal goals and identity. Furthermore, he compares fame to a 'VIP pass,' indicating that it provides opportunities and access, but that true fulfillment comes from authenticity in one's career choices.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a career development seminar.
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.
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 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?
You are not your resume, you are your work.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.
Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.
I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.
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