Shia LaBeouf's Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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A relationship to me is never about the romance.

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

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I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.

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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.

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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.

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

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