Zitat des Tages von 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.
The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.
Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing.
I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky!
You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them.
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.
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.
No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall.
Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm not a star, I'm an actor.
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.
Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.
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.
If I have enough money to eat I'm good.
Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.
There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.
I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.
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.
I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.
The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.
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.
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.
I think envy motivates a lot of people.
I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.
I'm very picky and I'm in a situation where it's a big crossover.
My family, my parents are hippies.
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.
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'm a little territorial and defensive. I don't like having my space invaded.
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.
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.
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.