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On acting
On success
On rumors
On fame
On his career
About himself
On love
On his life
 		On acting:
"Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I play. That's why it's called ACTING."

"I've been planted here as a vessel for acting..."

"Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act."

"I really don't know what I'm doing, I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and learn how to be like the character and do the best I can. That's all I really do."

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

"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."

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On success:
"I've just been jolting along from one film to another... Now, it's sort of a shock to realize what I've achieved."

"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."

"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."

"If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people."

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On rumors:
"I've heard some pretty bad rumors...that I'm gay..."

"If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean that I'm gay."

"I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without rumors being spread about me. It's crazy."

"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!"

"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."

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On fame:
"I hate being selected as 'Babe of the Month' and being called 'hunk'."

"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 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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"I hate my body."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"I'm not really the quiet 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."

"Dark green is my favorite color. It's the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss!"

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

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

"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."

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On his life:
"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."

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