Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

When artists get very big, they kind of forget that that's why they got big.

The day I say I'm famous is the day I sound like a fanny.

I stopped a lot of people who wanted to shove me into the real big time. Your ego wants to say, 'Hey, I'm somebody, man,' but I knew there were many days when I just wanted to be John Cale.

When I got successful and people started talking about me, I didn't want anyone thinking I thought I was a 'big time Charlie.'

After Stand By Me came out, people were telling me, 'You're so good,' 'You're going to be a star,' and things like that. You can't think about it. If you take it the wrong way, you can really get high on yourself. People get so lost when that happens to them. They may think they have everything under control, but everything is really out of control. Their lives are totally in pieces.

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.

That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures.

Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong.

The only way to get under me is to get over yourself.

If I had been egotistical about the movies, I have been brought back to earth.

It would have been very impossible to deal with this attention when I was younger. I'm thrilled with the success, but at this point I also think it's hilariously silly.

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

I might have faults but I'm not a big head.

I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.

People who are successful should never forget that it's 90 per cent luck. You've got to be an eejit to be an egomaniac. I had my glory years - 'Blankety Blank,' the talk show, when I was winning every award going.

I was a young, new, hot star, and I had this unbelievable arrogance. As time went on, the strident narcissism and arrogance slowly diminished. But I was definitely there. I'm older now. And a big crybaby.

As six-time world karate champion and then a movie star, I put too much trust in who I was, what I could do, and what I acquired. I forgot how much I needed others and especially God.