To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted. — Shia Labeouf

I’m an actor, but I’m an artist. — Shia Labeouf

I’m not a star, I’m an actor. — Shia Labeouf

As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery. — Shia Labeouf

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

Most actors on most days don’t think they’re worthy. — Shia Labeouf

The big thing for actors is the level of commitment. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

Actors live dependent on being validated by other people’s opinions. I don’t understand what it is I do that people want. I don’t know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don’t know what I’m doing. — Shia Labeouf

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor. — Shia Labeouf

I’ve been in fights, but that doesn’t make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I’m not proud of it. — Shia Labeouf

Every actor chooses their story at the beginning. — Shia Labeouf

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

No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it’s very open; my parents are both hippies. — Shia Labeouf

My parents are retired, basically. — Shia Labeouf

My family, my parents are hippies. — Shia Labeouf

Agents are used to the parents pimping. They’re not used to the kid pimping. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

My humor came from seeing my parents have sex, smoke weed, my mom being naked–just weird hippie stuff, twisted R–rated humor. — Shia Labeouf

There’s never been a parent in my life. — Shia Labeouf

My life is okay, my life is pretty good. — Shia Labeouf

I can’t tell you how many hot dogs I’ve eaten in my life. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

There’s beauty in people who reinvent themselves. Actors live a thousand lives, as do hackers … the personality can play around forever. — Shia Labeouf

This is hands down the biggest, most exciting thing I’ve ever been involved with in my life. I can only compare it to my Bar Mitzvah. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

It’s good filmmaking when you don’t have to say anything and you can still tell the story. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

I love doing stuff that I haven’t done before. That’s the goal: To keep reinventing myself. — Shia Labeouf

Oh, I’ve been in love with every woman I’ve ever worked with. — Shia Labeouf

I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team. — Shia Labeouf

A relationship to me is never about the romance. — Shia Labeouf

Sometimes I feel I’m living a meaningless life, and I get frightened. — Shia Labeouf

I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

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

When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made–my swing is pretty hot. — Shia Labeouf

When golf used to be a rich man’s sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course. — Shia Labeouf

I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can’t even talk about my own handicap because it’s too upsetting. — Shia Labeouf

When you look at golf films before us they’re all–garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can’t beat him. — Shia Labeouf

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work. — Shia Labeouf

I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I’m dating or what drugs I’m on or what club I went to. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

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. — Shia Labeouf

I turned down twelve films last year… Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work. — Shia Labeouf