Shia LaBeouf Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

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

Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle.

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

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.

I have a hard time with free time.

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

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

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.

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need.

I'm an individual, and I have opinions.

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

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

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!

I got accepted at Yale but never went.

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.

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

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

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.

Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother.