Top 110 Shia LaBeouf Quotes

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.

I’m not a celebrity, I’ve kind of been under the radar, has kept it easier for me to maintain a career.

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.

I’m a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on ‘Even Stevens.’ It was like a dream!

Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.

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.

I got kicked out of every school I ever went to.

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.

I’m not that smooth.

I come from divorce. I’m only doing marriage once. It’s not a game for me.

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.

I come from French Cajun Jewish people.

I’m very picky and I’m in a situation where it’s a big crossover.

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It’s taken me a long time.

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.

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.

I’m trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, ’cause that’s my go-to, it seems.

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

I enjoy what I’m able to give my family.

Any time you’re a type, your career’s over.

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.

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.

I didn’t jump onto anyone else’s coattail and ride their wave.

None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.

We’re living through the twilight of American economic dominance.

Respected, I almost want to be revered, that’s what I’m chasing.

Well, there’s different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I’m working in this business but I’m not Hollywood.

If I have enough money to eat I’m good.

My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.

Hey, I’m a human being also.

Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother.

What’s cool is when you’re able to give your audience imagination and you don’t have to cage them in like animals.

Agents are used to the parents pimping. They’re not used to the kid pimping.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I’m a little territorial and defensive.

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!

Most actors on most days don’t think they’re worthy.

No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn’t know who I was from a fly on the wall.

I’m Richie Rich. I land in New York, secretly thinking I’m like the coolest guy in the world.

Well, you don’t make any demands to Steven Spielberg.

My family’s lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

I can’t tell you how many hot dogs I’ve eaten in my life.

There’s no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

My parents are retired, basically.

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.

Animation has completely changed, and I’ve always been a big fan.

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.

I am a season ticket holder to Dodger games. I go to every Dodger game I can go to. Every single one.

Oh, I’ve been in love with every woman I’ve ever worked with.

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.

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.

I don’t have to live this lavish lifestyle.

There’s never been a parent in my life.

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.

I’m not a star, I’m an actor.

Crime is sexy.

I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.

I don’t have many actor friends.

I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can’t even talk about my own handicap because it’s too upsetting.

To my mind, talent doesn’t really exist.

To be able to sit in Donald Trump’s apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.

The comic book world is a tough business.

Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.

I think envy motivates a lot of people.

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!

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

My life is okay, my life is pretty good.

I have a very nappy, curly head.

I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day.

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.

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.

I think I’m prone to not being a good guy in relationships.

I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don’t have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.

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.

Latins are into clowns.

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.

You can go to college when you are 30 or 40.

I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.

If I want to party, I’ll party at my house.

I’m kind of bi-polar.

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.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

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.

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.

When golf used to be a rich man’s sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.

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.