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Claire Danes, who was his on-screen Juliet, feels DiCaprio is "charismatic, intelligent and charming.
"He's certainly easy on the eyes but he's
more like the guy at school you'd hang
around with rather than date,"
"He always seemed more interested in his
video games than anything else.''
"He's one of the most loyal people I know it's
one of his most marked characteristics."
Kate Winslet, who plays his love interest in Titanic, says the actor is "a really kind, wonderful person.
"I was expecting he'd be just another
self-centred stud but he's not at all, even
though he is absolutely gorgeous."
"He's the kind of person who can party all
night and then roll out of bed the next
morning looking stunning.''
"I would agree that he does look older,". "But I
don't think it's to do with a change in his
face, but rather with a worldly wisdom he would
probably hate to acknowledge he's acquired."
"He's probably the world's most beautiful-
looking man, yet he doesn't think that
he's gorgeous. And to me, he's just smelly,
farty Leo."
Screenwriter William Goldman remarked:
"Please don't let anything bad ever happen to
Leonardo DiCaprio."
The Man In The Iron Mask, also might not be his type of thing. Released at the zenith of teenyboppers' Leomania Mask casts DiCaprio as evil and saintly twins, a dual role that was a royal pain for some critics
The New York Times' Janet Maslin summed it up this way:
"[DiCaprio] fares well in one of his
most ill-advised film projects."
Gossip columnist Liz Smith once wrote:
"He seldom sleeps, so intense is his partying."
co-star Billy Zane told PEOPLE.
"He'll be the first to tell you that we made a
man out of him,"
Jonah Johnson (one of Leo's friends)says:
"Outside the house he may be famous, but inside
he's no longer famous. He's just Leo the jerk,
like us."
"Leo's no pussy, but he doesn't have a death
wish, either."
Ethan Supleesays :
"Leo's cheap, I feel funny saying that, but I've
said it tohim. But he'll look for a place in
the street to park rather than use valet
parking."
"Leo had a car on call for us all the time. On days off, we'd
figure out lunch, then figure what museums to go to. (About staying
with Leo in Paris)
Tobey Maguiresays:
"Little does Leo know what's going to happen
when Titanic comes out, I mean,it's huge. And
it's not going to be just 12-year-old girls
watching him. It's going to be everyone."
"He was doing karate kicks in the hallway. He
wasn't serious at all." Maguire adds, "Leo
says, 'De Niro .. wasn't he in Cape Fear?' I
said,'Are you fucking kidding me, dude?'"
(about Leo audition for This boy's life)
Jim Cameron (director of Titanic)says:
"The curious thing is, I actually didn't want
Leo at first, Leo was recommended by the
studios, as were other young, hot actors ... He
didn't strike me as necessarily having the
qualities that I wanted for my Jack."
"Leo was like a cat. He alway made this big drama about getting wet."
"There was this inner quality to this guy that he had to create, and
he totally holds the screen every second he's on there."
David Blaine, a magician who is one of
Leo's New York buddies,:
"Leo has a wonderful truthfulness about
him. Even just the way he is with his mother
and grandmother."
Randall Wallace (director) says:
"Anybody ought to love their parents. But if you
look at what it is about them that he most
treasures, you get a real window into who he
is. And I'm talking about this goodness of
heart and this honesty.
Alan Thicke (co-star in "Growing Pains") says:
"The audience sees him as this dreamy-eyed nuevo James Dean,
but he's a goof ball."
"We had the sence that nothing was ever going to stop him.
He just lit up the place."
