Shia LaBeouf
I'm Richie Rich. I land in New York, secretly thinking I'm like the coolest guy in the world.
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.
I'm not a celebrity, I've kind of been under the radar, has kept it easier for me to maintain a career.
I'm not a star, I'm an actor.
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.
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.
Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor.
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 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 like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky!
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.
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!
To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.
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.
The best movies are simple.
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.
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.
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.
I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.
None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.
Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.
Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.
I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.
Hey, I'm a human being also.
You can go to college when you are 30 or 40.
I never get in trouble.
I'm an actor, but I'm an artist.
I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.
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.
When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.
Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.
Any time you're a type, your career's over.
Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.
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.
As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.
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.
The comic book world is a tough business.
Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.
If I want to party, I'll party at my house.
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.
I'm not that smooth.
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.
My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.
The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.
A relationship to me is never about the romance.
Nobody strives to lose.
I have a very nappy, curly head.
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 think envy motivates a lot of people.