Top 199 Quotes & Sayings by Shia LaBeouf - Page 2

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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Nobody strives to lose.
The comic book world is a tough business.
I'm an actor, but I'm an artist. — © Shia LaBeouf
I'm an actor, but I'm an artist.
My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.
As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.
Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.
A relationship to me is never about the romance.
Oh, I've been in love with every woman I've ever worked with.
I come from garbage.
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.
I have a very nappy, curly head.
I never get in trouble.
I think envy motivates a lot of people. — © Shia LaBeouf
I think envy motivates a lot of people.
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.
I think the audience is pretty intelligent.
Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.
Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.
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.
At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.
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.
People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!
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.
You can go to college when you are 30 or 40.
Hey, I'm a human being also.
I got accepted at Yale but never went.
None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.
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.
Any time you're a type, your career's over.
When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.
I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.
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.
Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.
There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.
I'm not that smooth.
If I want to party, I'll party at my house.
I don't like having my space invaded.
When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.
I come from French Cajun Jewish people. — © Shia LaBeouf
I come from French Cajun Jewish people.
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.
I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.
What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.
My parents are retired, basically.
I got kicked out of every school I ever went to.
Latins are into clowns.
Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.
I'm a little territorial and defensive.
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.
The big thing for actors is the level of commitment. — © Shia LaBeouf
The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.
There will always be opportunities to be in love again.
When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.
I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.
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.
The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.
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 didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.
I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.
I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.
Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.
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.
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