Shia LaBeouf Quotations

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

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.

To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

There will always be opportunities to be in love again.

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

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

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

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.

I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role.

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

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

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

No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.

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

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

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.

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.

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 don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.

You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.

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'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.

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.

Look, you're on the set for six months, with someone who's rooting to be attracted to you, and you're rooting to be attracted to them. I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing.

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 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 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.

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

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.

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!

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

At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.

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.

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

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

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

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

A relationship to me is never about the romance.

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

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.

Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.

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

I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.

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.

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

There's never been a parent in my life.

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

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.

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

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.

But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.

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.

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.

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

Matt Damon in 'Bagger Vance' trained for a week,

Like, what do you say? Do you say 'Hey man!' Or would you say 'Hey peng?' Like, to be with Jeff Bridges, first of all, is a trip. Sitting with Jeff Bridges talking about how to be a penguin, it's like insane.

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

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've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire.

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

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.

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. But they don't know Francis' story, which is why the movie was made in the first place: To bring back this amazing tale so that people could be educated about how interesting it was. When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course. Francis was a caddy. He grew up across the street from the course, looked up to Harry Vardon (played by Stephen Dillane in the film), this five-time British Open champion but he was never allowed to play.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

You have to be a master to teach.

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

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.

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.