I have to say that whatever decisions I make, I really do think that movie making is a director's medium. They are the people that ultimately shape the film, and a director can take great material and turn it into garbage if they are not capable of making a good movie.

People are always like, 'It must be so hard for you, not to be able to leave your house. I'm like, 'No, I go where I want and do whatever I want all the time.' 'No, you walk down the street?' 'Yeah, I do all the time.' 'Really?' 'Yeah, all the time.'

I did imitations of anyone who came to my parents' house, and that was my identity at school - if there were ten minutes to lunch, and the teacher was done with the lesson, he'd say, 'Okay, Leo, get up there and do something.'

My parents, who were split up, were so good at keeping my environment strong and keeping everything around me not focused on the fact that we were poor. They got me culture. They took me to museums. They showed art to me. They read to me. And my mother drove two hours a day to take me to University Elementary School.

Hollywood is a very volatile place where artists come in, and they essentially say they want to belong. It's incredibly vulnerable to be an actor and also get criticism at a young age when you're formulating who you are. We've seen a lot of people fall victim to that, and it's very unfortunate.

I am trying to do the best work I possibly can and making movies that will have resonance for years to come. I think if you try for an Oscar or a goal like that, the more people are going to see it as transparent. It's not on my radar. If it happens, great, but I'm happy to continue working as I am, really.

I don't watch anything of mine much. I haven't gone to drama school, or college, either. I just like to watch other actors in action. I learned so much from working with De Niro. I'd be in a scene with him where I was supposed to be acting, and I was just watching.

I remember reading the book in high school and always thinking of Gatsby as this strong, stoic, suave, mysterious man who had everything under control. But when I read it as an adult, I realised he is a hollow man, a shell of a person trying to find meaning, who is not completely in touch with reality.

The bottom line is, when it comes to an actor and his performance, whether nominated or not, it simply has to do with whether that character had enough resonance with the audience. You know, to the filmgoers. And that something that you can't control.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

Why it's simply impassible! Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible? Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

Have I gone mad? I'm afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usually are.

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

We're all mad here.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

Alice:How long is forever? White Rabbit:Sometimes, just one second.

In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?

Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?

My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings

If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there

He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.

And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?

Off with their heads!

I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.

Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?" Alice: "Yes..." The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young.

It is better to be feared than loved.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing-- turn your toes out when you walk--- And remember who you are!

Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.

I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.

Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.