Shia LaBeouf Quotes

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.

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.

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

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

It's good filmmaking when you don't have to say anything and you can still tell the story.

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

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.

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!

When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to island. You don't have to pick.

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.

Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.

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.

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

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

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

It's fun right now, and I love it right now, but I don't know where I'm going to be tomorrow, 'cause I'm not psychic. But I know that over the last 10 years, acting has been the only joy, this has been - it's strange to say, 'cause the thinking is off. But this is more important than my hobbies, my family, my love, my friends. It's the most important thing in the world to me.

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

I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.

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.

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 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've learned to be more reserved, watch what I'm saying; I got in a little bit of trouble. People tell me 'Never lose that, never lose that,' but then I get in trouble so I have to lose it. I'm trying to keep a little bit; I'm never going to lose who I am, I just gotta tone it down a little bit.

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

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.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

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

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.

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.

I love doing stuff that I haven't done before. That's the goal: To keep reinventing myself.

There's beauty in people who reinvent themselves. Actors live a thousand lives, as do hackers ... the personality can play around forever.

Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor.

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.

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

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

I got to grow up in a situation where drugs were demonic. To watch your dad go through heroin withdrawal is something that would keep you from doing any of that yourself.

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!

A relationship to me is never about the romance.

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.

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

I was doing stand up comedy when I was 11, that's how I got started; not because I wanted to do comedy, but because we were broke, living in Echo Park in Downtown Los Angeles, from 1986, I saw the Rodney King riots; my parents didn't really work. But I wanted a new backpack, that's how I got into this business - I wanted a new backpack.

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 a little territorial and defensive.

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.

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.

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.

I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky!

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

I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.