Shia LaBeouf

“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...”

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

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

“I am a season ticket holder to Dodger games. I go to every Dodger game I can go to. Every single one.”

“We're living through the twilight of American economic dominance.”

“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...”

“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...”

“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.”

“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 a...”

“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.”

“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.”

“I have a hard time with free time.”

“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.”

“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...”

“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 int...”

“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 pe...”

“I think I'm prone to not being a good guy in relationships.”

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

“When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.”