I have a hard time with free time.
— Shia LaBeouf
I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.
I got kicked out of every school I ever went to.
Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.
There will always be opportunities to be in love again.
I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.
I come from garbage.
The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.
I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.
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.
I have a very nappy, curly head.
Nobody strives to lose.
A relationship to me is never about the romance.
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 people don't root for you anymore.
If I want to party, I'll party at my house.
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.
Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.
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.
At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.
What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.
I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.
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.
You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.
If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he's probably shipping out for 'Transformers.' If you ask a 26-year-old what he wants to do, 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he'd probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as I change.
There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.
Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.
I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.
When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.
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.
The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.
I'm not that smooth.
Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.
As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.
Any time you're a type, your career's over.
My parents are retired, basically.
I don't like having my space invaded.
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.
I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.
It's very weird because the 'It' guy usually is not the 'It' guy next year or even a guy that anyone is talking about.
I think the audience is pretty intelligent.
My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.
If I had more recreation time I would be able to step back and reflect on how life has changed. But it has been like a constant... boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!
I think envy motivates a lot of people.
I come from French Cajun Jewish people.
My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.
People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!
My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.
It's really easy to fall for someone on-set, but in the end you know, it's a representative and it's not really them.
The comic book world is a tough business.
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.
