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Daily Inspiration Quote by Leonardo DiCaprio

"I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating"

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DiCaprio’s “ordinary girls” line is less a dating preference than a PR firewall. He’s talking like a man who knows every dinner can become a headline, and he’s trying to reframe celebrity romance as mundane logistics: cinema, friends, no big narrative arc. The phrasing does a lot of work. “Ordinary” isn’t really about class or personality; it’s a counter-image to the tabloid model of the actor as a serial trophy-hunter, always upgrading to the next glamorous accessory. By invoking “college students, waitresses,” he borrows the cultural credibility of normal life, the kind that reads as authentic precisely because it’s not curated.

Then comes the defensive pivot: “Just because I go out to the cinema... it doesn’t mean we are dating.” That’s not innocence; it’s boundary-setting. He’s attempting to strip a common social ritual of its romantic meaning because, in celebrity culture, context is never neutral. A movie outing is evidence. A photo is a verdict. He’s arguing for a version of social life where women can exist near him without instantly becoming “the girlfriend,” which is a surprisingly modern pushback against the public’s need to label and possess.

The subtext, though, is the tension he can’t quite resolve: he wants the freedoms of anonymity while benefiting from the visibility that makes anonymity impossible. The quote is an actor’s most realistic performance - not romance, not mystique, just damage control delivered in a casual, boyish register.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
DiCaprio, Leonardo. (2026, January 18). I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-prefer-ordinary-girls-you-know-college-22766/

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DiCaprio, Leonardo. "I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-prefer-ordinary-girls-you-know-college-22766/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-prefer-ordinary-girls-you-know-college-22766/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Leonardo DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974) is a Actor from USA.

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