Shia Labeouf quotes

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

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.

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; he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking; people love him. Same with Gene Hackman.

You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.

I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.

I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.

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.

I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.

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.

A relationship to me is never about the romance.

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 a money issue for me.

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 something where you don't even know what you're doing.

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.

I was in a relationship with a girl I loved for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things.

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.

My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.

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

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.

I'm a little territorial and defensive. I don't like having my space invaded.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.

If I have enough money to eat I'm good.