Shia LaBeouf
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's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.
The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.
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.
I come from garbage.
I think the audience is pretty intelligent.
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.
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.
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.
There will always be opportunities to be in love again.
I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.
I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.
I got kicked out of every school I ever went to.
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 can't tell you how many hot dogs I've eaten in my life.
I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner.
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.
At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.
Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.
Oh, I've been in love with every woman I've ever worked with.
I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.
We're living through the twilight of American economic dominance.
I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day.
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 come from French Cajun Jewish people.
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.
Well, you don't make any demands to Steven Spielberg.
I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.
I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.
I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.
Latins are into clowns.
I'm a little territorial and defensive.
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.
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.
People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!
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.
My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.
When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.
I got accepted at Yale but never went.
No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.
My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.
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.
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 never been a parent in my life.
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.
Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing.
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.
No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall.