Top 100 Labeouf Quotes
#1. I always love watching those natural actors like Bill Cosby, Raven-Symone and Shia LaBeouf - just effortless actors.
Jacob Latimore
#2. 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
#3. I read 'Holes' in 10th grade, and I haven't read a full book since. The movie version with Shia LaBeouf was OK, but the book was way better.
Domo Genesis
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall.
Shia Labeouf
#8. 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
#10. When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.
Shia Labeouf
#11. 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
#12. 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.
Shia Labeouf
#13. 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.
Shia Labeouf
#14. 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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#15. There's beauty in people who reinvent themselves. Actors live a thousand lives, as do hackers ... the personality can play around forever.
Shia Labeouf
#16. There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me.
Shia Labeouf
#17. Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.
Shia Labeouf
#18. 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
#19. I can't tell you how many hot dogs I've eaten in my life.
Shia Labeouf
#20. 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
#21. 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.
Shia Labeouf
#22. You can go to college when you are 30 or 40.
Shia Labeouf
#23. I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky!
Shia Labeouf
#24. I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.
Shia Labeouf
#25. Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother.
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#26. 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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#27. If you're tired of starting over, stop giving up.
Shia Labeouf
#28. 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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#29. 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.
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#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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.
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#33. My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.
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#35. I didn't jump onto anyone else's coattail and ride their wave.
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#36. That's one thing I never had to do on a Mike Bay set is sit around and pontificate about the next scene; there's no time for it. You're already in the next scene.
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#37. I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.
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#38. 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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#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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.
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#42. 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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#43. Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.
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#44. I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.
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#45. There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.
Shia Labeouf
#46. 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
#47. Copying isn't particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else's idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.
Shia Labeouf
#48. 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
#50. So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect.
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#51. 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
#52. 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
#54. 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
#55. I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.
Shia Labeouf
#56. I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man; he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking; people love him. Same with Gene Hackman.
Shia Labeouf
#57. 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.
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#58. 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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#59. 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.
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#62. I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.
Shia Labeouf
#63. 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
#64. I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.
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#65. In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.
Shia Labeouf
#66. People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!
Shia Labeouf
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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.
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#71. Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.
Shia Labeouf
#72. 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
#73. I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.
Shia Labeouf
#74. 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
#76. 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.
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#77. 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
#79. 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
#80. I got to grow up in a situation where drugs were demonic. To watch your dad go through heroin withdrawal is something that would keep you from doing any of that yourself.
Shia Labeouf
#81. 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
#82. My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.
Shia Labeouf
#83. Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.
Shia Labeouf
#84. Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.
Shia Labeouf
#85. Everybody's got stories. I don't want to not have stories.
Shia Labeouf
#86. Oh, I've been in love with every woman I've ever worked with.
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#88. I turned down twelve films last year ... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.
Shia Labeouf
#89. 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
#90. I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.
Shia Labeouf
#91. 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.
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#92. A relationship to me is never about the romance.
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#93. Any time you're a type, your career's over.
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#94. When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.
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#95. I'm very picky and I'm in a situation where it's a big crossover.
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#96. I got kicked out of every school I ever went to.
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#97. Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.
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#98. 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
#99. 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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#100. Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.
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