“I’m a little territorial and defensive. I don’t like having my space invaded.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I can’t tell you how many hot dogs I’ve eaten in my life.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I have a hard time with free time.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made – my swing is pretty hot.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“If I had more recreation time I would be able to step back and reflect on how life has changed. But it has been like a constant… boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I have a very nappy, curly head.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I think penguins are the most human of all the birds, which may be why people love them. They’re cute, they stand upright and they look like they’re wearing tuxedos.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I think there’s a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Sometimes I feel I’m living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“You can’t have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can’t have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros’ pocket money. It’s fundamentally ridiculous.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I’m not a strikingly handsome guy, but I’m in movies.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“You can’t buy back your respect; you can’t buy back your career. You only get one, so I don’t want to mess that up.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I’m dating or what drugs I’m on or what club I went to.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Hey, I’m a human being also.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Oh, I’ve been in love with every woman I’ve ever worked with.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“There will always be opportunities to be in love again.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don’t have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I don’t even really know what it is I do for a living – the level of insecurity is very, very high. You’re making a lot of money, getting a lot of accolades and positive criticism for something where you don’t even know what you’re doing.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I’m just selfish. I have to be for what I do.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“When golf used to be a rich man’s sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“If people perceive you as a good actor then they’ll wish for you to be a good actor and they’ll root for you when they watch you, but if you come out and you’re going to clubs every night people don’t root for you anymore.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I’m an only child, so I’m pretty much a loner.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I don’t have to live this lavish lifestyle.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“In my parents’ generation, rebellion was pop culture. It’s not anymore.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“When you look at golf films before us they’re all – garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can’t beat him.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“They’re very, uh, you know, I don’t come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they’re cool and bare minimum so it’s not always a money issue for me.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“So it’s kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they’ve done, I’ve been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn’t know who I was from a fly on the wall.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I’ve spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It’s taken me a long time.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I think envy motivates a lot of people.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I wasn’t cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I’m a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It’s not really anything; it’s just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“If you’re trying to learn how to act from a class, you’re analyzing the teachers’ movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that’s wrong. Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. It’s your own imagination, and your own version of it.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“There’s something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion – I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don’t bother them.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“There’s never been a parent in my life.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Respected, I almost want to be revered, that’s what I’m chasing.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we’re enjoying it, but I’d stop if it’s not possible.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it’s very open; my parents are both hippies.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don’t fight that much now. I don’t look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you’re a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything… I mean it’s your mother, so I lost my mind.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“My family, my parents are hippies.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“If I have enough money to eat I’m good.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I’ve been in fights, but that doesn’t make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I’m not proud of it.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I’m very picky and I’m in a situation where it’s a big crossover.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I turned down twelve films last year… Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I don’t know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I didn’t know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It’s more work and more good work. That’s it. People will have their opinion regardless.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“And if you’re a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it’s not great, then you’re not going to believe in the golf story, you’re not going to believe in the rest of the film. That’s the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie’s crap.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“And I’m not a personality; otherwise I’d be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there’s a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you’ll never be successful.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can’t even talk about my own handicap because it’s too upsetting.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I’m not an Adonis, that’s for damn sure. I’ve never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn’t matter to me. My favorite actors aren’t Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man; he’s amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking; people love him. Same with Gene Hackman.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I’m very picky!”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I’d love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don’t see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I used to dirt bike a lot. I can’t do that anymore. Can’t eat a whole lot of chocolate anymore, either. I can’t be in ‘Indiana Jones’ and be a fatso!”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Look, you’re on the set for six months, with someone who’s rooting to be attracted to you, and you’re rooting to be attracted to them. I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“The best movies are simple.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I drink protein shakes nonstop – three or four a day – and I run a lot, so you get rid of the bad carbs and keep the rest so you have the energy to make it through.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“There’s only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“There’s a form of selling out. It’s necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I enjoy what I’m able to give my family.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“My family’s lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Latins are into clowns.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Agents are used to the parents pimping. They’re not used to the kid pimping.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I’m a little territorial and defensive.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I got accepted at Yale but never went.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“You can go to college when you are 30 or 40.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I never get in trouble.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I’m an actor, but I’m an artist.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“A lot of people like to think that golf is a lazy man’s sport. Or it’s a rich man’s sport, or it’s a sport that they can’t be involved in.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Any time you’re a type, your career’s over.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I feel like I’m really honest in my interviews, to a fault. I’ve lost friends over it. Major friends. And I’m heartbroken about that.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“The comic book world is a tough business.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Well, there’s different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I’m working in this business but I’m not Hollywood.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“If I want to party, I’ll party at my house.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“It’s really easy to fall for someone on-set, but in the end you know, it’s a representative and it’s not really them.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I’m not that smooth.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“A relationship to me is never about the romance.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on ‘Even Stevens.’ It was like a dream!”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Nobody strives to lose.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I come from French Cajun Jewish people.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“When you’re working with the best of the best, I’m not gonna put that on hold so I can work with people who studied the best of the best.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Every time you make a movie it’s an adventure.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“There’s no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an ’86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you’d ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are ‘Transformers’ or Lars von Trier, he’s probably shipping out for ‘Transformers.’ If you ask a 26-year-old what he wants to do, ‘Transformers’ or Lars von Trier, he’d probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as I change.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I come from garbage.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I think the audience is pretty intelligent.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I think, my generation, it’s hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“It’s very weird because the ‘It’ guy usually is not the ‘It’ guy next year or even a guy that anyone is talking about.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I was in a relationship with a girl I loved for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you’ve got to start thinking about other things, and I’m too young to think about those things.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I’ve had to deal with all different types of situations – positive and negative and extremes of both.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I didn’t read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can’t blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“What’s cool is when you’re able to give your audience imagination and you don’t have to cage them in like animals.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I got kicked out of every school I ever went to.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I don’t like having my space invaded.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn’t spend the money I’ve accrued now.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“My parents are retired, basically.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I’ve learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven’t been allowed to engage in yet.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I didn’t jump onto anyone else’s coattail and ride their wave.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“My life is okay, my life is pretty good.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“People are still emulating the old fashioned criminal.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I’ve never been able to learn from other people’s mistakes – I’m not that smart – so I usually learn by trial by fire.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I have a great house.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Most actors on most days don’t think they’re worthy.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“To my mind, talent doesn’t really exist.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I’m only going to work now when I’m terrified.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I come from divorce. I’m only doing marriage once. It’s not a game for me.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I think I’m prone to not being a good guy in relationships.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Animation has completely changed, and I’ve always been a big fan.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Well, you don’t make any demands to Steven Spielberg.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I am a season ticket holder to Dodger games. I go to every Dodger game I can go to. Every single one.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I’m kind of bi-polar.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“We’re living through the twilight of American economic dominance.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“To be able to sit in Donald Trump’s apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I don’t have many actor friends.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I’m an individual, and I have opinions.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Crime is sexy.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren’t my mother, as sick as that sounds.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“There’s this coming-of-age thing that’s happening within me.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I’m trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, ’cause that’s my go-to, it seems.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Actors live dependent on being validated by other people’s opinions. I don’t understand what it is I do that people want. I don’t know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don’t know what I’m doing.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“That’s one thing I never had to do on a Mike Bay set is sit around and pontificate about the next scene; there’s no time for it. You’re already in the next scene.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Everybody’s got stories. I don’t want to not have stories.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I’m a call-sheet junkie. I love being on set. So, the hardest thing for me is dealing with all this idle time. That’s when I get into trouble.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I’m Richie Rich. I land in New York, secretly thinking I’m like the coolest guy in the world.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I’m not a celebrity, I’ve kind of been under the radar, has kept it easier for me to maintain a career.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“I’m not a star, I’m an actor.”
― Shia LaBeouf
“Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is.”
― Shia LaBeouf
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