Latest Shia LaBeouf Quotes from Interviews

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• Never wanted to do anything else than acting ever in my life. But I'm 20, and there's so many possibilities. It would be insane for me to say, "Yeah this is definitely it, I'm never doing anything else." I'm 20 years old. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know anything about life. So I don't know. I may be a train conductor in 10 years. I have no idea. And that's the joy of this all.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Joy, Insane, Acting

  Source: film.avclub.com

• It's fun right now, and I love it right now, but I don't know where I'm going to be tomorrow, 'cause I'm not psychic. But I know that over the last 10 years, acting has been the only joy, this has been - it's strange to say, 'cause the thinking is off. But this is more important than my hobbies, my family, my love, my friends. It's the most important thing in the world to me.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Fun, Thinking, Joy

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor. And if you give too much away, you have nothing to take for yourself and put onscreen. If people feel like they know you too well, they won't be able to indentify with the character you're trying to portray. Or they'll feel that you're just playing yourself, and then you just become a personality actor. And that's the death of any actor.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Character, People, Giving

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I'm still in the middle of the transition. I'm still in man-boy mode. And that won't go away for a while. But it's a fun time to be in, because it's very rare that people get to work through this time. It's rare to see a John Cusack in Say Anything. It's rare that you'd find an actor right in the cusp of the child-to adult transition, just got through puberty, just getting into a different way of life. There's few movies like that, and few roles like that, so it's going to be tough to pick and choose. I guess the goal is good people, work with good people.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Fun, People, Goal

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Child actors become types. The cutesy type, the funny type, the dark type. Any time you're a type, your career's over. It's not been effortless for me; I've had bumps in the road, you know? I was in Dumb And Dumberer. It's not been a flawless thing so far. But all in all, I'm proud of it. Most proud of it because of the diversity. Because the genres are different.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Children, Dark, Diversity

  Source: film.avclub.com

• 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.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Imagination, Trying, Acting

  Source: film.avclub.com

• By studying psychology i want to be a better actor. 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.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Fun, Psychology, Emotion

  Source: film.avclub.com

• If you can mix Hilary Duff and Gary Oldman into the same actor, that's my goal. I know it's strange to think about, but that's the goal.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Thinking, Goal, Actors

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 11, 2007.

• I've learned to be more reserved, watch what I'm saying; I got in a little bit of trouble. People tell me 'Never lose that, never lose that,' but then I get in trouble so I have to lose it. I'm trying to keep a little bit; I'm never going to lose who I am, I just gotta tone it down a little bit.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Who I Am, People, Trying

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• It's good filmmaking when you don't have to say anything and you can still tell the story.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Say Anything, Stories, Filmmaking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• You have to be a master to teach.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Masters, Teach

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I was doing stand up comedy when I was 11, that's how I got started; not because I wanted to do comedy, but because we were broke, living in Echo Park in Downtown Los Angeles, from 1986, I saw the Rodney King riots; my parents didn't really work. But I wanted a new backpack, that's how I got into this business - I wanted a new backpack.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Kings, Echoes, Parent

  "Shia LaBeouf Sheds His Child Image for The Greatest Game Ever Played". Interview with MovieWeb, movieweb.com. September 30, 2005.

• Having emotional connections to things that don't really exist, like looking at a green ball and really loving that green ball, and being sad whether it's around or not. Stuff like that. I've never done acting at this level before so it was a huge challenge for me. It was a hurdle to overcome just to survive.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Emotional, Being Sad, Challenges

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Oh yeah, I'm the president of the lucky club. There are so many talented people who don't work. And the crop of young actors I'm surrounded by is incredible. When you have people like that around you it amps you up a little bit. Also, Emile Hirsch and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, or guys like Ryan Gosling. It's a really good crowd and I feel I'm coming up at a good time. But equally, there's a lot of good young actors who don't get to work who are more talented than I. I'm just lucky.

  Shia LaBeouf

  People, Guy, President

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• There is no grand strategy. My sensibilities push me in a certain direction. Other actors have different sensibilities. That's all. I think it really is that simple. There's no grand strategy. There are so many variables that I have no control over. I sign on to movies I want to watch, as a fan.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Simple, Thinking, Fans

  "Shia LaBeouf and Dane DeHaan Talk LAWLESS, Sampling Moonshine, and Bringing These Characters to Life". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 27, 2012.

• The big thing for actors is the level of commitment. So, if you know something's already happened, there's not a whole lot of whys and hows that go down. You just innately commit 'cause it happened. It does help with commitment.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Commitment, Doe, Actors

  Source: collider.com