Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?

I've watched a lot of my friends die, everyone from John Belushi, River Phoenix to Chris Farley. It just keeps going on and on.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift.

I never really looked up to celebrities when I was young.

In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.

The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.

I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.

Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.

The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.

You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped but there is always present underlying desire to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.

Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us.

Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.

It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don't appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It's the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison - it's garbage to me. I worship the people who survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.

I was never crying and shaking like the Beliebers do, but I understand the idolizing of a hero.

I know death comes. I've seen too much death, young death.

Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.

I was a hero, and a second afterwards it was all over. Casartelli was dead so what I had achieved was worth nothing.

As a kid I always idolized the winning athletes. It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their place. When I saw great people, I said to myself: I can be there.

Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.

What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.

We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse directed into the adoration of daft singers, thicko footballers and air-headed screen actors than into the veneration of dogmatic zealots, fanatical preachers, militant politicians and rabid cultural commentators.

You never know when it will be the last time you'll see your father, or kiss your wife, or play with your little brother, but there's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.

Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did...That's my biggest regret.

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?