Shia LaBeouf

“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 someth...”

“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...”

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

“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...”

“Animation has completely changed, and I've always been a big fan.”

“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 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 w...”

“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.”

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

“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...”

“The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.”

“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!”

“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.”

“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!”

“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.”

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

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

“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 th...”

“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 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.”