Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.
— 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.
Oh, I've been in love with every woman I've ever worked with.
I got accepted at Yale but never went.
I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.
My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.
None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.
There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top.
The best movies are simple.
I used to dirt bike a lot. I can't do that anymore. Can't eat a whole lot of chocolate anymore, either. I can't be in 'Indiana Jones' and be a fatso!
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.
I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.
And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need.
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.
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 think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.
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.
When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.
I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.
I never get in trouble.
I'm a little territorial and defensive.
Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.
I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day.
I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.
I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.
Look, you're on the set for six months, with someone who's rooting to be attracted to you, and you're rooting to be attracted to them. I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing.
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.
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.
I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.
And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.
I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.
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.
I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.
I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.
When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.
I'm an actor, but I'm an artist.
You can go to college when you are 30 or 40.
Hey, I'm a human being also.
Latins are into clowns.
Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.
There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.
I drink protein shakes nonstop - three or four a day - and I run a lot, so you get rid of the bad carbs and keep the rest so you have the energy to make it through.
To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.
I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky!
Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor.
I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.
And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.
I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle.
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.
I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.
