LEONARDO DICAPRIO: "I WANT TO GET MARRIED AND HAVE CHILDREN"

In the new issue of Parade, Leonardo DiCaprio opens up about wanting to wed and live a normal life.
"What I definitely feel a need for is to make my life about more than just my career. Just last night I was thinking to myself how little of my life has been lived normally and not spent on some far-off movie location," the actor, 33, says. "I want to get married and have children. In saying that, I realize I am contradicting everything I've said before. I absolutely believe in marriage."
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DiCaprio -- who appears to be back on with model Bar Refaeli -- adds, "I hope I never get cynical. I think you need youthful energy, excitement, and optimism in life.
"There is a lot I want to do, and the more cynical you become, the more you sit on your butt and do nothing," he says. "The one thing that I would love is to never become cynical about the things I think are really important, like family, like the environment."
Smiling, he adds, "What I want is to be known as someone who stood for something."
Of becoming an actor, he says, "my parents never tried to steer me in any direction. I wanted to be an actor, but I never thought it was a real possibility, ever. I thought I’d be a marine biologist, because nature and evolution fascinated me.
"We're all after love, aren't we?" he says. "Love is what people are hungry for. That's absolutely why I became an actor."
The actor says he proud of his break-through role in the 1996 epic Titanic.
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"I'm grateful for the possibilities it's given me," he says. "If it hadn't been for that movie, I wouldn't have been able to take control of my career."
During that time, he says, "I started to think about things that meant more to the world than this glorified, superficial media exposure of me, something I never felt was justified."

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