Labeouf Shia Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

My parents are retired, basically. — 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

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. — Shia Labeouf

There is no grand strategy. My sensibilities push me in a certain direction. Other actors have different sensibilities. That's all. I think it really is that simple. There's no grand strategy. There are so many variables that I have no control over. I sign on to movies I want to watch, as a fan. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

My family, my parents are hippies. — Shia Labeouf

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. — 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

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in. — 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'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

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

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

Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person. — Maddie Ziegler

I got accepted at Yale but never went. — 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'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

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. — Shia Labeouf

The best movies are simple. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

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

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. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

I'm not a star, I'm an actor. — Shia Labeouf

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

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. — 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 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

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

You have to be a master to teach. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

Shia [LaBeouf] was great. He's just high energy. He's into really playing, and I had to be on my toes in a way that I wasn't necessarily expecting. — Peter Jacobson

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

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. — Shia Labeouf

'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's being made into a movie and it makes you a little annoyed at first? But I would've loved to play the Shia LaBeouf role in that movie when I was younger. I just wanted to be the rebellious kid on the old digging camp. — Nat Wolff

Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother. — Shia Labeouf

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

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. — Shia Labeouf

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

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. — 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

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. — Shia Labeouf

The comic book world is a tough business. — Shia Labeouf

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

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

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

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

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. — Shia Labeouf

I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle. — Shia Labeouf

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

I think envy motivates a lot of people. — 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

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. — 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'm an individual, and I have opinions. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

I'm not that smooth. — Shia Labeouf

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. — 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

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

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

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

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

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. — Shia Labeouf

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist. — 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