Shia LaBeouf

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

I'm very picky and I'm in a situation where it's a big crossover.

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

No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall.

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

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

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

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

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.

The comic book world is a tough business.

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.

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.

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.

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist.

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

Nobody strives to lose.

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

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.

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.

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.

Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother.

The best movies are simple.

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.

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.

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

Copying isnt particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone elses idea to produce something new and different is creative work.

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!

There will always be opportunities to be in love again.

I got accepted at Yale but never went.

I don't have many actor friends.

But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.

I never get in trouble.

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.

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

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.

There's never been a parent in my life.

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 grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

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

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

Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.

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.

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

A lot of people like to think that golf is a lazy man's sport. Or it's a rich man's sport, or it's a sport that they can't be involved in.

My parents are retired, basically.

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

I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.

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.

My family, my parents are hippies.

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.

Latins are into clowns.

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

Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor.

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

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

You can prepare all you want but if you never roll the dice youll never be successful.

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.

If I want to party, I'll party at my house.

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

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!

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

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.

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

I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.

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.

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.

A relationship to me is never about the romance.

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

I come from French Cajun Jewish people.

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

I think envy motivates a lot of people.

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

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

Hey, I'm a human being also.

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

As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.

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.

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.

Well, you don't make any demands to Steven Spielberg.

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

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

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

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.

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.

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

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.

I think the audience is pretty intelligent.

I have a hard time with free time.

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 was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

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

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