Shia Labeouf Quotes

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.

I think I'm prone to not being a good guy in relationships.

To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.

I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.

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

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.

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

I don't have many actor friends.

I'm Richie Rich. I land in New York, secretly thinking I'm like the coolest guy in the world.

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.

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.

People think that their vote counts. They go to college, and everything gets mixed up. People stop caring, ... They raise the gas prices, but what the Everyman makes and welfare never seem to keep up. The HMO system is so ridiculous. I'm slightly educated. No one wants to hear what Hilary Duff thinks of the economy.

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.

Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.

I come from French Cajun Jewish people.

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.

Latins are into clowns.

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.

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.

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.

The comic book world is a tough business.

I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle.

There's a way to do an acid trip like Harold & Kumar, and there's a way to be on acid. What I know of acting, Sean Penn actually strapped up to that (electric) chair in Dead Man Walking. These are the guys that I look up to.

If you're tired of starting over, stop giving up.

It's really easy to fall for someone on-set, but in the end you know, it's a representative and it's not really them.

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.

Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.

Copying isn't particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else's idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

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.

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.

Hey, I'm a human being also.

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

Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.

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.

You can go to college when you are 30 or 40.

Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.

I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.

My humor came from seeing my parents have sex, smoke weed, my mom being naked - just weird hippie stuff, twisted R-rated humor.

I'm an actor, but I'm an artist.

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.

There will always be opportunities to be in love again.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

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!

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.

I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg.

Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.

I got accepted at Yale but never went.

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.

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.

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.

I never get in trouble.

The best movies are simple.

I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.

Most actors on most days don't think they're worthy.

At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.

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!

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.

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.

I think envy motivates a lot of people.

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

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.

No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.

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.

Animation has completely changed, and I've always been a big fan.

I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner.

I'm not a celebrity, I've kind of been under the radar, has kept it easier for me to maintain a career.

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.

If people perceive you as a good actor then they'll wish for you to be a good actor and they'll root for you when they watch you, but if you come out and you're going to clubs every night people don't root for you anymore.

Oh yeah, I'm the president of the lucky club. There are so many talented people who don't work. And the crop of young actors I'm surrounded by is incredible. When you have people like that around you it amps you up a little bit. Also, Emile Hirsch and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, or guys like Ryan Gosling. It's a really good crowd and I feel I'm coming up at a good time. But equally, there's a lot of good young actors who don't get to work who are more talented than I. I'm just lucky.

None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.

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.

My parents are retired, basically.

Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I don't know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don't know what I'm doing.

A relationship to me is never about the romance.

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.

I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.

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.

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.

Oh, I've been in love with every woman I've ever worked with.

I'm an individual, and I have opinions.

Nobody strives to lose.

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!

When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.

I am a season ticket holder to Dodger games. I go to every Dodger game I can go to. Every single one.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

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

Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing.

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 would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.

I think the audience is pretty intelligent.

I got kicked out of every school I ever went to.

My life is okay, my life is pretty good.

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

I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky!

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.

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

There's never been a parent in my life.

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.

If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he's probably shipping out for 'Transformers.' If you ask a 26-year-old what he wants to do, 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he'd probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as I change.