Top 24 Shia LaBeouf Quotes



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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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 a little territorial and defensive. I don’t like having my space invaded.

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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’m not a strikingly handsome guy, but I’m in movies.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

 

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