"that was really scary. Luckily, I was doing a tandem jump with this guy on my back. He cut off the chute that didn't open and it floated away so we started to free-fall again for a while. I started to freak out again, until he pulled the reserve chute and steered us down. That was pretty crazy."
 
"If I tried TITANIC 2, for example, it wouldn't be long before I would be starring alongside a talking dog trying to solve mysteries."
 
"I hate being selected as 'Babe of the Month' and being called 'hunk'."

He admits he's done a few lousy roles in the beginning of his career, like his role role in "Critters III". "But at that age, you'll do anything for attention!"

"I have the same problem as Edward Furlong. I'm so thin!"

"I hate my body."

"Fame is not the worst thing. I went to dinner the other night, and the girls in the restaurant ignored me. It was so annoying."

"I'm nothing like Romeo in real life..."

"I like girls who are intelligent, somewhat funny and pretty with a nice personality."

"People always like to make up stories. I am not planning on getting married. Then again, I might wake up tomorrow and decide to get married!"

"I insist on keeping a level head. I've maintained the same exact home life that I've had for 20 years. All I see is more people looking at me than before.  But, you know, who cares? You just can't obsess yourself with this fame stuff."

"People want you to be a crazy out-of-control teen brat. They want you to be miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes. What they want is to see you fall."

"What I would do in order to be popular was, I'd put myself on line and joke around and be funny, and I was always known as the crazy kid."

"As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way."

"I don't care about being a star, I'm concerned about being an actor."

"The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and I was happy. I don't think that I will strive for money or success and end up greedy or big-headed. That only leads to unhappiness. I can still be down-to-earth and do this job as long as I enjoy it."

"When I was young, I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything. I used to think, 'How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?'"

"I like to help the whales, the otters, and the dolphins. When I'm acting and I take a break, the first thing on my list is spending time by the sea."

"I'm shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I'm fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious."

"One of my passions is to meet people and then imitate them. I love doing that."

"If you hear of any incident about me - a fight, a change of clothes, a little extra gel in the hair, don't believe it till you talk to me."

"I hate speaking in front of a large audience. I don't know where it came from... but its just this gut-wrenching fear of slipping up and doing something horrible."

"It's a weird adjustment living alone, because you don't realize how much you really miss Mumsie until she's not there."

"My God, no! I hate this whole hunk thing! I feel when I see myself in that, and these other cute faces, that I'm just part of this meat factory, like, 'Wow! Here's the hunk of the month! This month we're shoving Leonardo DiCaprio down your throat! Isn't he cute. Let's put him on the cover and we'll sell so many more magazines...' That's definitely not what I want to be, and I've tried real hard to get away from that whole situation."

"I don't have emotions about a lot of things. I rarely get angry, I rarely cry. I guess I do get excited a lot, but I don't get sad and enormously happy. I think a lot of people who talk about all that crap are lying. Right now I'm just trying to maintain happiness - that's all I really care about. Anyway, when you're my age and your hormones are kicking in, there's not much besides sex that's on your mind."

"I'm absolutely clean. I've never tried anything. That's not a lie!"

"I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart."

"It's tricky stuff. If you're not perfect in every film, then people say 'see, he was just lucky in one role'."

"I'm not the sort of person who tries to be cool or trendy. I'm definitely an individual."

 "I'm not really the quite type, although some people think I am. But I'm the rebel type in the sense that I don't think I'm like everyone else. I try to be an individual."

"Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me. I don't know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I'm a weirdo."

"The main thing for me right now is just to live my life with my family and friends. They treat me like Leo, not 'Leonardo, Master Thespian'. That's all I need to keep my sanity."

"Romeo was restless, he was ready to kill..."

"I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what makes me happy, and it has taken me a while to admit that acting like a child and a jerk is fun."

"My first date was with a girl named Cessi. We'd had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer long. Then she came home and we met to go out for the first time to the movies. When I saw her I was petrified. I couldn't even look her in the eye to talk to her."

"I don't know if I'm ever getting married. I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people took a
 chance and they did it. We don't have the guts that Romeo did."

 "Bridget Hall and I hung out for a week. The whole thing was blown out of proportion."