New York: 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 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,” he said at the Newsweek’s Oscar panel discussion.

“It changed my life in a lot of ways, but at the same time, I can’t say that it didn’t give me opportunities.”

After many successful movies and critical acclaim, DiCaprio said he loves acting. “There’s no other art form in the world that affects me more. There’s nothing that I walk away from feeling transformed by the way I do with cinema,” he said.