，只有亲密的友谊。他们在一起有说有笑，拍摄情侣关系的镜头过程中笑声不断，而且显而易见的是他们一直保持着这种良好的关系。
凯特·温斯莉：说出来有点傻，不过我们真的很像兄妹。我们有很多共同处，在私人方面。他知道许多我的秘密，我也懂得他的很多秘密，我从没把他的秘密跟任何人说过。
劳累了六个月，《铁达尼号》终于在1997年3月完成了拍摄。九个月后，该片在各电影院播放，迅即成为历史上最卖座电影，在全球总共拿到20亿美元的赢利。里奥纳多·迪卡皮里欧由青少年偶像一夜之间摇身变成国际巨星。但这个变化令他思绪万千。
里奥纳多·迪卡皮里欧：这好像不是真的一样，我在慢慢适应。我不知道怎么说才最好，因为我的确不知道。这变化对我来说还是新鲜的。
史蒂文·史密斯：《铁达尼号》真的在一定程度上决定了里奥纳多·迪卡皮里奥的命运，我觉得他对此并不欣喜若狂。当然了，看到电影如此成功他也感到振奋。拍了《铁达尼号》，里奥纳多·迪卡皮里奥就没有了个人隐私，隐私对于他是非常重要的。
里奥纳多·迪卡皮里欧：我就像刚演了两个角色，声望度骤然上升，不管是什么原因，我正在适应这个变化。我觉得这太好了，但……未来怎样我们会看到的。
史蒂文·史密斯：对里奥纳多的影迷而言，1998年最难过的事就是他在《铁达尼号》的演出与奥斯卡提名无缘而过。我觉得，里奥纳多·迪卡皮里奥并不会因为拿不到奥斯卡提名奖就睡不好觉。他演电影因为他别无可选。他做的是演员这一行。他出生在这个星球上也是为此。
尽管公众对他的痴迷不减，里奥纳多一点也没放松下来。面对溢美之辞，这名才华横溢的年轻演员似乎仍毅然前行。
里奥纳多·迪卡皮里欧：我一生的梦想就是成为演员，而且是成为优秀的演员。我是说，那是我一直渴望梦想的，绝对是这样。
评论家：我想，因为他那么才华横溢，我们将能够看着他作为演员不断成长。里奥纳多的身上具备无尽潜能让他的演技更青出于蓝而胜于蓝。
[注释]
1) determined a. 很有决心的
2) gaze upon 看
3) fabulous a. 惊人的，难以置信的
4) epic a. 壮丽的，大规模的
5) audition n. 试镜
6) aristocratic a. 贵族的
7) showcase n. 陈列橱，显示优点的东西
8) reluctant a. 不情愿的
9) convey v. 传达
10) blend n. 不同种类的混合物
11) impetuousness n. 冲动
12) ally n. 同盟者，盟友
13) hit off 相投，相处得好
14) sane a. 神智清楚的
15) grueling a. 使人精疲力竭的
16) disastrous a. 悲伤的
17) nomination n. 提名
18) ongoing a. 正在进行的
19) infatuation n. 醉心
20) adulation n. 奉承
★★《2003年03月号-第39期-disc01-08》★★
nicole kidman
-- growing out of love
kidman: i didn't think that i was ever going to have the success that i have now. i'm very surprised. i go in to see my 1)agent that other day, i said, "can you believe this?" this is kinda like "wow"!
interviewer: do you think that being mrs. tom cruise in any way hurt your career?
kidman: what does it matter? it was, i mean, hurt it? i had a life with him. i spent a decade of my life with him and loved him. still, we'll always, you know, i mean, when you spend that amount of time with someone, they are with you. so therefore, when you say, well, did it hurt your career, who cares? that's what i wanted.
interviewer: i've read that you put your career on the 2)back burner and allowed his career to be more important to you than your own.
kidman: yeah, of course. he earned way more money than me.
interviewer: did you feel you were being held back?
kidman: i don't look at it that way.
interviewer: you said, in that period of time, you can't have it all. but you are. you're having a huge career and you're raising two children alone.
kidman: yeah, i am doing it and i suppose that's why, i mean, i'm tired.
she thought she was 3)gawky and her hair was too 4)frizzy, her skin too pale. and 5)overall, that she was too tall.
kidman: i was teased, really teased.
interviewer: how tall are you?
kidman: i'm five ten and a half, but i think now maybe i've grown half an inch and i'm five eleven. i was this height when i was thirteen years old, which is really hard. hard...
interviewer: yeah. there's not one guy in your whole school who was as tall as you.
kidman: oh no. they all came up to here. it was awful.
interviewer: did you feel like ...
kidman: yeah, i had this thing where i liked to say "i'm not big" then because everyone goes, "oh you're such a big girl. " "no, no, i'm not big, i'm not big."
it's been an issue in her career. going back to her american debut in days of thunder. she was afraid that she was too tall to get the part opposite the star, tom cruise. she not only got the part, she got the man.
interviewer: was it love at first sight? one look?
kidman: not one look, but it was pretty powerful. you fall madly in love and that was sort of, you know, that was my love of my life, so that was a big thing.
interviewer: it started good.
kidman: very good.
nicole kidman and tom cruise got married a year after they met. there were rumours that he, and perhaps she, too, were gay. rumours they both denied. nicole insists theirs was a real marriage.
kidman: love is an emotion that is so 6)compelling and 7)overwhelming and 8)intoxicating and extraordinary and they're right -- movies and books and songs, and we all know why.
but just as her career was beginning to 9)take off, her private life 10)crashed. after ten years, tom cruise asked for a divorce, saying only, "nicole knows why." nicole 11)fell apart.
kidman: that was a terrible, terrible time in my life and a lot of things happened. umm, in terms of my health, everything...
interviewer: you had a 12)miscarriage.
kidman: ... which i don't even want to talk about. everything 13)crumbled at the same time and that's when you go, but if someone else is sitting out there now watching and saying, "i don't think i'm gonna 14)get through", ... you can.
she says that now, but back then she was so 15)devastated. she says she couldn't get out of bed and didn't stop crying until her mother arrived from australia.
kidman: you know, you cry and my mom would say, "what are you crying about? get up, stop compl