Shia LaBeouf's Quotes

I don't like having my space invaded.

I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.

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

I got accepted at Yale but never went.

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

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.

I have a great house.

I have a hard time with free time.

I have a very nappy, curly head.

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.

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

I never get in trouble.

I think envy motivates a lot of people.

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

I think the audience is pretty intelligent.

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

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

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

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 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 was planning on going to Yale to theater school.

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

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.

I'm a little territorial and defensive.

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

I'm an actor, but I'm an artist.

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

I'm kind of bi-polar.

I'm not that smooth.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Latins are into clowns.

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

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

My family, my parents are hippies.

My life is okay, my life is pretty good.

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

My parents are retired, basically.

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

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

Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.

Nobody strives to lose.

None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.

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

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

People are still emulating the old fashioned criminal.

Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother.

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

The best movies are simple.

The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.

The comic book world is a tough business.

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

There will always be opportunities to be in love again.

There's never been a parent in my life.

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.

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

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist.

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

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

Well, you don't make any demands to 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.

When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.

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

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

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.

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 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.