Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

The idea of being a 'child star' always sounded awful to people my age, and so I was just very aware that these things are kind of fleeting and that a lot of it didn't have to do with me: it had to do with my age; it had to do with whatever came to mind when people thought of a young internet sensation.

When I was 17 I sent a picture up to an agency, and within a week I was in The Sun five days in a row.

Right now I'm in 'Twilight' and I go around to signings and there are people screaming and crying, and it's so surreal. I know that when this is over in a month or two and whenever 'Twilight's no longer relevant, that doesn't live on for me. It's because of this. It's not very often that this happens for people.

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

I didn't want to be one of these superstars that just come and then just disappear.

If you're on the cover of any magazine, you certainly get recognized more.

To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.

I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.

To even be called the 'teen queen' is crazy.

You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?

You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows you next Monday.

You see people all the time who are on hit shows and then you never hear from them again.

Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it.

Fame is a fickle thing that only lasts as long as you can be out there offering yourself to the public. And as soon as you relax for five minutes, they're gone, you know, and they're following somebody else.

I am really proud that I am one of the artists that has the opportunity to be on magazine covers and to be in the movies.

You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.

One Direction are super cool.

I was the Justin Bieber of the '70s. Really, I was.

I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.

My face is on bubblegum wrappers now!

It's pretty crazy. I was thinking about that today, how 'True Blood' has penetrated so much of the cultural zeitgeist. It's truly amazing; it's incredible! The cover of 'Rolling Stone' is major. What's next, the cover of 'Vanity Fair?' When I'm in a 'New Yorker' cartoon, then I will feel like I have made it.

I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.

Every actor is a model to a certain extent, since they have to do so much press.

I was a teen idol in Latin America.

'The Walking Dead' and 'Guardians of the Galaxy' have pumped up the recognition factor a thousand times. I can't get off an airplane anymore. I don't know how the hell they know and how these people find out. They must have some interesting, secret way of getting a hold of the flight manifesto or something.