Shia Labeouf Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Shia Labeouf

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

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

None of my friends were ever as broke as I was. — Shia Labeouf

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

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. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

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

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! — Shia Labeouf

I'm an actor, but I'm an artist. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

I enjoy what I'm able to give my family. — Shia Labeouf

I don't like having my space invaded. — Shia Labeouf

Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

People are still emulating the old fashioned criminal. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

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

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

If I have enough money to eat I'm good. — Shia Labeouf

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

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. — Shia Labeouf

I think the audience is pretty intelligent. — Shia Labeouf

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

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. — Shia Labeouf

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

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. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

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

Latins are into clowns. — Shia Labeouf

I got kicked out of every school I ever went to. — Shia Labeouf

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

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. — Shia Labeouf

My humor came from seeing my parents have sex, smoke weed, my mom being naked - just weird hippie stuff, twisted R-rated humor. — Shia Labeouf

I come from garbage. — Shia Labeouf

There will always be opportunities to be in love again. — Shia Labeouf

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

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. — Shia Labeouf

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

Any time you're a type, your career's over. — Shia Labeouf

I come from French Cajun Jewish people. — Shia Labeouf

I have a great house. — Shia Labeouf

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

This is hands down the biggest, most exciting thing I've ever been involved with in my life. I can only compare it to my Bar Mitzvah. — Shia Labeouf

My life is okay, my life is pretty good. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

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

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. — Shia Labeouf

I'm kind of bi-polar. — Shia Labeouf

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

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself. — Shia Labeouf

I was planning on going to Yale to theater school. — Shia Labeouf

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

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

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. — Shia Labeouf

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

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. — Shia Labeouf

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

My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude. — Shia Labeouf

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

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. — Shia Labeouf

Nobody strives to lose. — Shia Labeouf

I don't have many actor friends. — Shia Labeouf

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

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

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. — Shia Labeouf

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

Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping. — Shia Labeouf

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

I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies. — Shia Labeouf

Every actor chooses their story at the beginning. — Shia Labeouf

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful. — Shia Labeouf

People think that their vote counts. They go to college, and everything gets mixed up. People stop caring, ... They raise the gas prices, but what the Everyman makes and welfare never seem to keep up. The HMO system is so ridiculous. I'm slightly educated. No one wants to hear what Hilary Duff thinks of the economy. — Shia Labeouf

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

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. — Shia Labeouf

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

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. — Shia Labeouf

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! — Shia Labeouf

I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified. — Shia Labeouf

Hey, I'm a human being also. — Shia Labeouf

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

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

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

And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap. — Shia Labeouf

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

I got accepted at Yale but never went. — Shia Labeouf

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

I never get in trouble. — Shia Labeouf

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

I'm not that smooth. — Shia Labeouf

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

As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery. — Shia Labeouf

A relationship to me is never about the romance. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

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