Shia LaBeouf

“Any time you're a type, your career's over.”

“There's never been a parent in my life.”

“I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.”

“Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.”

“I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.”

“There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.”

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

“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 like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky!”

“No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.”

“If I want to party, I'll party at my house.”

“No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall.”

“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'm Richie Rich. I land in New York, secretly thinking I'm like the coolest guy in the world.”

“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 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.”

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

“Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.”

“Animation has completely changed, and I've always been a big fan.”

“We're living through the twilight of American economic dominance.”