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.
— Shia LaBeouf
I'm not a celebrity, I've kind of been under the radar, has kept it easier for me to maintain a career.
I'm Richie Rich. I land in New York, secretly thinking I'm like the coolest guy in the world.
I'm a little territorial and defensive. I don't like having my space invaded.
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 believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.
If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds.
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.
Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.
We're living through the twilight of American economic dominance.
Well, you don't make any demands to Steven Spielberg.
I think I'm prone to not being a good guy in relationships.
I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.
Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.
To my mind, talent doesn't really exist.
Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.
Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.
I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.
Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is.
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.
I'm a call-sheet junkie. I love being on set. So, the hardest thing for me is dealing with all this idle time. That's when I get into trouble.
That's one thing I never had to do on a Mike Bay set is sit around and pontificate about the next scene; there's no time for it. You're already in the next scene.
I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.
Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother.
I'm an individual, and I have opinions.
Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.
I'm kind of bi-polar.
Animation has completely changed, and I've always been a big fan.
I can't tell you how many hot dogs I've eaten in my life.
I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.
In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.
Most actors on most days don't think they're worthy.
I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire.
I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner.
I didn't jump onto anyone else's coattail and ride their wave.
I'm not a star, I'm an 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.
Everybody's got stories. I don't want to not have stories.
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.
There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me.
Crime is sexy.
I don't have many actor friends.
To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.
I am a season ticket holder to Dodger games. I go to every Dodger game I can go to. Every single one.
I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.
My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.
I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.
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 have a great house.
People are still emulating the old fashioned criminal.
My life is okay, my life is pretty good.
