Shia LaBeouf Quotes

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.

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

The comic book world is a tough business.

I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.

I'm constantly jumping off cliffs and developing my wings on the way down. ... It's a gamble, a ... spiritual gamble. You are who you choose to be.

There is no grand strategy. My sensibilities push me in a certain direction. Other actors have different sensibilities. That's all. I think it really is that simple. There's no grand strategy. There are so many variables that I have no control over. I sign on to movies I want to watch, as a fan.

The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.

I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.

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.

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

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

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

By studying psychology i want to be a better actor. 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.

My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.

Never wanted to do anything else than acting ever in my life. But I'm 20, and there's so many possibilities. It would be insane for me to say, "Yeah this is definitely it, I'm never doing anything else." I'm 20 years old. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know anything about life. So I don't know. I may be a train conductor in 10 years. I have no idea. And that's the joy of this all.

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.

The best movies are simple.

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

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.

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

I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.

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.

My family, my parents are hippies.

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.

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

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.

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.

If you can mix Hilary Duff and Gary Oldman into the same actor, that's my goal. I know it's strange to think about, but that's the goal.

I have a hard time with free time.

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.

Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.

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 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.

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.

There's a way to do an acid trip like Harold & Kumar, and there's a way to be on acid. What I know of acting, Sean Penn actually strapped up to that electric chair in Dead Man Walking. These are the guys that I look up to.

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

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.

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

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.

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.

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

Having emotional connections to things that don't really exist, like looking at a green ball and really loving that green ball, and being sad whether it's around or not. Stuff like that. I've never done acting at this level before so it was a huge challenge for me. It was a hurdle to overcome just to survive.

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.

I became a Christian man in a very real way. I could have just said the prayers that were on the page, but it was a real thing that really saved me. And you can't identify unless you're really going through it. It's a full-blown exchange of heart, a surrender of control.

Hey, I'm a human being also.

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

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