Shia LaBeouf is an American actor, performance artist, and filmmaker. He became known among younger audiences as Louis Stevens in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens, a role for which LaBeouf won a Daytime Emmy Award. He made his film debut in The Christmas Path in 1998. In 2004, he made his directorial debut with the short film Let’s Love Hate and later directed a short film titled Maniac starring American rapper Cage and Kid Cudi. LaBeouf has starred in the many films including Disturbia, Surf’s Up, Transformers, Indiana Jones, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Lawless, American Honey, Borg vs McEnroe and many other films. Since 2014, LaBeouf has pursued a variety of public performance art projects with LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner. May his quotes inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “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.” Shia Labeouf
3. “The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It’s taken me a long time.” Shia Labeouf
4. “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.” Shia Labeouf
5. “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.”Shia Labeouf
6. “The comic book world is a tough business.” Shia Labeouf
7. “As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.” Shia Labeouf
8. “Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.” Shia Labeouf
9. “When golf used to be a rich man’s sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.” Shia Labeouf
10. “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.”Shia Labeouf
11. “Literature is an easier way to study acting because then you can take any kind of spin.” Shia Labeouf
12. “I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day.” Shia Labeouf
13. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.” Shia Labeouf
14. “You can go to college when you are 30 or 40.” Shia Labeouf
15. “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!”Shia Labeouf
16. “I have a hard time with free time.” Shia Labeouf
17. “None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.” Shia Labeouf
19. “To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be broken-hearted.” Shia Labeouf
20. “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.”Shia Labeouf
21. “A relationship to me is never about the romance.” Shia Labeouf
22. “I enjoy what I’m able to give my family.” Shia Labeouf
23. “Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.” Shia Labeouf
24. “I was doing stand up comedy when I was 11, that’s how I got started; not because I wanted to do comedy but because we were broke.” Shia Labeouf
25. “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 labelled 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.”Shia Labeouf
26. “There will always be opportunities to be in love again.” Shia Labeouf
27. “Any time you’re a type, your career’s over.” Shia Labeouf
28. “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.” Shia Labeouf
29. “My family’s lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.” Shia Labeouf
30. “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.”Shia Labeouf
31. “I’ve had to deal with all different types of situations – positive and negative and extremes of both.” Shia Labeouf
32. “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.” Shia Labeouf
33. “The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.” Shia Labeouf
34. “Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.” Shia Labeouf
35. “Do it, just do it! Don’t let your dreams be dreams.” Shia Labeouf
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