Top 100 Shia Labeouf Quotes
#2. What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.
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#3. I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.
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#4. Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.
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#6. 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.
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#7. People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!
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#8. 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.
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#9. I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.
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#12. 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.
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#13. 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!
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#14. In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.
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#15. 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.
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#16. 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.
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#17. Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.
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#18. I'm very picky and I'm in a situation where it's a big crossover.
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#19. When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.
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#20. A relationship to me is never about the romance.
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#21. I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.
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#22. 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.
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#24. Everybody's got stories. I don't want to not have stories.
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#25. Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.
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#26. Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.
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#27. 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.
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#28. 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.
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#30. 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.
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#31. If you're tired of starting over, stop giving up.
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#32. I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.
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#33. I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.
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#34. You can go to college when you are 30 or 40.
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#35. Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.
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#36. Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.
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#37. There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me.
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#38. 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.
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#39. 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.
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#40. 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.
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#41. Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.
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#42. When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.
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#43. 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.
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#44. 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.
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#45. 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.
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#46. Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.
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#47. 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.
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#48. 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.
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#49. 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.
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#50. 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.
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#51. I didn't jump onto anyone else's coattail and ride their wave.
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#52. 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.
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#53. 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.
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#54. At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.
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#55. When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.
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#56. I think I'm prone to not being a good guy in relationships.
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#57. We're living through the twilight of American economic dominance.
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#58. There will always be opportunities to be in love again.
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#60. I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.
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#62. 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.
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#63. I've learned to be more reserved, watch what I'm saying; I got in a little bit of trouble. People tell me 'Never lose that, never lose that,' but then I get in trouble so I have to lose it. I'm trying to keep a little bit; I'm never going to lose who I am, I just gotta tone it down a little bit.
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#64. I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day.
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#65. 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.
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#66. If I want to party, I'll party at my house.
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#67. Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.
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#68. I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.
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#70. Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.
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#71. I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.
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#72. 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.
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#74. 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.
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#75. People are still emulating the old fashioned criminal.
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#76. 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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#77. I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.
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#78. I think the audience is pretty intelligent.
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#79. Most actors on most days don't think they're worthy.
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#80. None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.
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#81. 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.
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#82. I'm Richie Rich. I land in New York, secretly thinking I'm like the coolest guy in the world.
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#83. To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.
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#84. The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.
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#86. I am a season ticket holder to Dodger games. I go to every Dodger game I can go to. Every single one.
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#87. I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.
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#88. No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.
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#90. I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.
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#94. 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.
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#95. 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.
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#96. I love doing stuff that I haven't done before. That's the goal: To keep reinventing myself.
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#98. I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.
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