Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.

Popularity means people think they know you.

I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it.

When the success of 'Crazy Rich' hit, it's like everybody knows exactly who you are, and the way that they speak to you is different. I've stayed the same throughout. It's just people's perception of you changes.

Celebrity is quite a fraught word. It is not something I aspire to, but I can certainly see why it could be.

I'm lucky right now because I'm not that famous, people will look at the work just as the work, and people respond to it pretty well. It's just hard to know exactly what group I need to meet and where I need to be. I think fame helps, but I want it to be separate as much as it can. Fame is just so weird, people just love famous people.

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.

I enjoy being recognized. I'll be very sad if people stop recognizing me. I'll be very sad if I'm not interviewed, because that's a very amazing process.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous.

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

People recognize me - but if you've been in the public eye as long as I have and people don't recognize you, I feel bad about myself.

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.

I don't really celebrate fame because I get enough attention.