Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.

Plenty of Disney kids are perfectly normal and love what they do. But you always hear about the people who aren't doing well. It's kind of like the squeaky wheel.

I thought that when you have more success that you'd feel more buoyed or feel more confident. But in fact my brain has the gift of switching it around and saying, 'Now people are expecting something. Now you're really going to let people down.'

I don't want to believe my own hype.

I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.

Still when I go on talk shows, I worry that I have to live up to a comedic persona.

I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good enough. So my response was to just not be able to write anymore. I know that's not the healthiest of responses.

When you have success, people think you know what you're doing, and you start to agree with them, you think you can conquer the world. But you go from grandiosity to panic.

I don't know what to do if I am not inspiring some sort of false fascination.

The scariest thing about receiving praise at a young age is the fear of burning out or losing it, or proving people right that you were just a novelty. Obviously, I can see mistakes in things that I've done or said and can see flaws in things I've made, but that's just part of growing.

I get nervous before every shoot. I'm really jealous of the people that can just rest on their laurels and say, 'I'm good; this is it.'

The perils of success at a young age is being afraid to make a mistake.

I couldn't do 'I'm A Celeb' because I know too much.

At the combine and at my workouts, I tried to be the perfect player. I tried to promote my strengths and conceal my weaknesses, and on paper, I kind of succeeded: I was the first pick in the draft. And with that, I inherited this big shiny trophy that I carried around, and it had one word engraved on it - anxiety.

I couldn't deal with the fame, the pressure and everything else.

If you're great, that means you're freaked out that the next day you're not going to be great. You keep trying.

I feel weird talking about it, because how can I, as the guitar player of Slipknot, sit here and say, 'Oh, I have trouble.' You know what I mean?

I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I felt I could only be myself when I was alone, that I turned into some kind of novelty. The only way I could get through that time was to drink. I poisoned myself with alcohol for years but I've never been into drugs in the way it was sometimes made out.

Being larger than life, or being projected as such in the music business, leads you to question yourself. Some people try to forget about it by taking drugs or too much drink, but I was never like that. I was aware that there were very serious, big questions, and I was petrified about what might be in store for me.

When people call me a role model it puts the fear of god into me, because I feel like I'm destined to fail.

I know I have trouble watching my own films.

I didn't handle success all that well.

I'm still sometimes convinced that I'm just making all of this up and I'm actually somewhere drooling in a straight jacket. This success is such a bizarre thing.

During those years with the Iron Maidens, I felt I had to be great and really prove myself at every single show.

I tend to avoid interviews, I don't have a publicist and fear of failure is still very much alive in my personal life.