Shia LaBeouf

• "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.“
• "To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.“
• "The comic book world is a tough business.“
• "I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "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'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.“
• "What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.“
• "I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.“
• "My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.“
• "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 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.“
• "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 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.“
• "My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.“
• "My family, my parents are hippies.“
• "I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.“
• "My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.“
• "To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.“
• "Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.“
• "Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.“
• "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.“
• "What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.“
• "Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.“
• "I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.“
• "My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.“
• "My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.“
• "If I have enough money to eat I'm good.“
• "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.“
• "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 turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.“
• "At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "The best movies are simple.“
• "Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.“
• "I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.“
• "I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.“
• "I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.“
• "When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.“
• "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.“
• "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'm 20 years old. I was in a relationship with a girl I love 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.“
• "A relationship to me is never about the romance.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.“
• "I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.“
• "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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