Quotes from Shia LaBeouf

The comic book world is a tough business.

The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!

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 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.

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

I have a very nappy, curly head.

We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks.

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 labeled 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.

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.

I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.

I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.

I can't tell you how many hot dogs I've eaten in my life.

I'm constantly jumping off cliffs and developing my wings on the way down. ... It's a gamble, a ... spiritual gamble. You are who you choose to be.

I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.

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

I'm a little territorial and defensive.

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.

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

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.

When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.

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'm not a celebrity, I've kind of been under the radar, has kept it easier for me to maintain a career.