Shia Labeouf Quotes

The comic book world is a tough business.

~ Shia Labeouf

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

~ 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

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

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

~ 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

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

~ 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

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

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

~ 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

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

~ Shia Labeouf

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

~ 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

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

~ Shia Labeouf

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

~ 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

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

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

~ Shia Labeouf

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

~ Shia Labeouf

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

If I have enough money to eat I'm good.

~ Shia Labeouf

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

~ 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 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

A relationship to me is never about the romance.

~ Shia Labeouf

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

~ 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

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

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