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Leonardo DiCaprio wanted to give up acting for a time after the hit movie Titanic.
DiCaprio was back to being considered "another piece of cute meat" after the 1997 film's spectacular box-office success, an image he had wanted to get away from after his days on the cover of teen magazines.
"It was pretty disheartening to be objectified like that. I wanted to stop acting for a little bit ... but at the same time I can't say that it didn't give me opportunities. It made me, for the first time, in control of my career."
