"We had the sense then that nothing was ever going to stop him. He just lit up the place."
-Growing Pains
star Alan Thicke
"He was kinda a dork, like a little wimpy guy."
-Leo's Marshall High classmate Susanna Mejia
" You just couldn't help but gravitate toward what he did. When he did his monologue, it was so moving that he had the class in tears!"
-Leo's ninth-grade drama teacher Helen Stringos-Arias
"Grossing Kate out was purely Leo's job. If he wasn't rolling back his eyelids, he was making objets d'art out of his bodily fluids."
-Titanic Co-star Billy Zane
"He's probably the world's most beautiful looking man, yet he doesn't think he's that gorgeous. And to me, he's just smelly, farty Leo."
-Titanic co-star Kate Winslet
"And I have to say, a lot of the sexual tips he's given me have worked."
- Titanic co-star Kate Winslet
" He'll be the first one to tell you we made a man out of him! You can't call him a boy anymore."
-Titanic co-star Billy Zane
"Leo is an independent heart, and he has integrity. To tell you the truth, I haven't noticed a bit change in him."
-Iron Mask director Randall Wallance
"Leo's obviously very aesthetically pleasing. He's really charismatic, very perceptive and very charming."
-Romeo & Juliet co-star Claire Danes
"Leo is always with one girl or another."
-screenwriter James Toback
"He's truly brillant, but I don't think we could be together romantically. We became close with the work, but we were never buddies."
-Romeo & Juliet co-star Claire Danes
"Leo and I sometimes still talk about it and say, "Oh should we have an affair just for the hell of it?" but we end up agreeing, "No we couldn't, because we just wouldn't be able to take it seriously.'"
-Titanic co-star Kate Winslet
"Hes the most down to earth person I've met, very un-Hollywood."
-Basketball Diaries co-star Mark Wahlberg
" He has a lot of family support. They keep him sane."
-Basketball Diaries co-star Mark Wahlberg
" Leo glides through a room. He's flirty, he's accesible, he's cool. He's not a demanding kind of guy."
-Steve Lewis, director of New York nightclub Life
"He likes to party, but he isn't caught up in it."
-photographer Patrick McMullan
"He's a very cunning, calaculating, shrewd and smart guy. He would run away from anybody and anything that might sabotage him. He does not want to fail."
- screenwriter James Toback