Quotes from Shia LaBeouf

My parents are retired, basically.

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.

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.

Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother.

Crime is sexy.

Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm very picky and I'm in a situation where it's a big crossover.

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

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 didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.

Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing.

Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.

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.

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.

If I have enough money to eat I'm good.

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 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.

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 jump onto anyone else's coattail and ride their wave.

Latins are into clowns.