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Shia LaBeouf [1986-0] American

Rank: 101
Actor

Shia Saide LaBeouf is an American actor, performance artist, and director who became known among younger audiences as Louis Stevens in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens.

Cool, Dad, Amazing, Imagination, Mom, Movies, Positive, Dating, Marriage, Money, Relationship, Respect, Science, Space, Sports, Trust

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My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.	Mom	101
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.		102
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.		103
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.		104
People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!		105
I have a very nappy, curly head.		106
I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.	Movies	107
I have a hard time with free time.		108
I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.		109
I can't tell you how many hot dogs I've eaten in my life.		110
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.	Movies	111
If I have enough money to eat I'm good.	Money	112
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.		113
I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.		114
Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor.		115
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.		116
My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.	Dad	117
When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.		118
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.	Relationship	119
Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.		120
Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.		121
I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.	Cool	122
Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It's not really anything; it's just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.		123
I'm a little territorial and defensive. I don't like having my space invaded.	Space	124
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.	Science	125
What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.	Cool, Imagination	126
We're living through the twilight of American economic dominance.		201
I'm a little territorial and defensive.		202
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.	Cool	203
To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.		204
I am a season ticket holder to Dodger games. I go to every Dodger game I can go to. Every single one.		205
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.	Respect	206
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.	Cool	207
I'm very picky and I'm in a situation where it's a big crossover.		208
There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.		209
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.	Sports	210
When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.	Positive	211
Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.		212
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.		213
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.		214
Well, you don't make any demands to Steven Spielberg.		215
To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.	Amazing	216
Crime is sexy.		217
Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother.		218
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.	Imagination	219
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.	Trust	220
Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.		221
In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.		222
Animation has completely changed, and I've always been a big fan.		223
I'm an individual, and I have opinions.		224
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.	Positive	225
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.		226
No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.		301
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.		302
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.	Dating	303
I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.		304
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.		305
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.	Dad	306
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.	Dad	307
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.		308
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.	Amazing	309
I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky!		310
Look, you're on the set for six months, with someone who's rooting to be attracted to you, and you're rooting to be attracted to them. I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing.		311
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.		312
I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.		313
When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.		314
Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.		315
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.		316
It's very weird because the 'It' guy usually is not the 'It' guy next year or even a guy that anyone is talking about.		317
There will always be opportunities to be in love again.		318
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.		319
I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.		320
I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner.		321
Most actors on most days don't think they're worthy.		322
I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.	Marriage	323
My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.	Mom	324
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.		325
Everybody's got stories. I don't want to not have stories.		326
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.		401
Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing.		402
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.		403
No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall.		404
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.		405
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.		406
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.		407
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.		408
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.		409
The best movies are simple.		410
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.		411
Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.		412
I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day.		413
My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.		414
Hey, I'm a human being also.		415
I never get in trouble.		416
Oh, I've been in love with every woman I've ever worked with.		417
I'm an actor, but I'm an artist.		418
Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.		419
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.		420
I'm not that smooth.		421
A relationship to me is never about the romance.		422
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!		423
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.		424
I come from garbage.		425
I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.		426
I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.		501
I got kicked out of every school I ever went to.		502
At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.		503
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.		504
I didn't jump onto anyone else's coattail and ride their wave.		505
My life is okay, my life is pretty good.		506
People are still emulating the old fashioned criminal.		507
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.		508
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.		509
Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.		510
I think I'm prone to not being a good guy in relationships.		511
I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.		512
I'm kind of bi-polar.		513
Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.		514
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.		515
Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.		516
I think envy motivates a lot of people.		517
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.		518
There's never been a parent in my life.		519
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.		520
My family, my parents are hippies.		521
I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.		522
I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle.		523
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.		524
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.		525
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.		526
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!		601
I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.		602
I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.		603
None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.		604
Latins are into clowns.		605
I got accepted at Yale but never went.		606
You can go to college when you are 30 or 40.		607
I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.		608
Any time you're a type, your career's over.		609
Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.		610
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.		611
As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.		612
The comic book world is a tough business.		613
If I want to party, I'll party at my house.		614
The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.		615
Nobody strives to lose.		616
I come from French Cajun Jewish people.		617
I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.		618
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.		619
There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.		620
The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.		621
I think the audience is pretty intelligent.		622
I don't like having my space invaded.		623
My parents are retired, basically.		624
I have a great house.		625
To my mind, talent doesn't really exist.		626
I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.		701
Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.		702
I don't have many actor friends.		703
There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me.		704
I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.		705
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.		706
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.		707
I'm Richie Rich. I land in New York, secretly thinking I'm like the coolest guy in the world.		708
I'm not a celebrity, I've kind of been under the radar, has kept it easier for me to maintain a career.		709
I'm not a star, I'm an actor.		710

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