Top 199 Quotes & Sayings by Shia LaBeouf - Page 3

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

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.

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 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.

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

Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother.

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.

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.

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

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

I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner.

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.

I'm not a star, I'm an actor.

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

Crime is sexy.

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

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.

There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me.

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

I'm a little territorial and defensive. I don't like having my space invaded.

I'm kind of bi-polar.

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.

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.

People are still emulating the old fashioned criminal.

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

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist.

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

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

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

I don't have many actor friends.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.

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

I have a great house.

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

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

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

My life is okay, my life is pretty good.

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

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

I'm an individual, and I have opinions.

Everybody's got stories. I don't want to not have stories.

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.

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

I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.

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.

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.

Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. Its not really anything; its 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.

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

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist. Talent is like a card player's luck. It is motivation, ambition, and luck. It's just a drive to be the best. I think acting is a con game.

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

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.

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.

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.

Oh yeah, I'm the president of the lucky club. There are so many talented people who don't work. And the crop of young actors I'm surrounded by is incredible. When you have people like that around you it amps you up a little bit. Also, Emile Hirsch and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, or guys like Ryan Gosling. It's a really good crowd and I feel I'm coming up at a good time. But equally, there's a lot of good young actors who don't get to work who are more talented than I. I'm just lucky.

You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

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.

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