02c. 1996 ADI turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.Shia LaBeouf / quote ↗
03c. 1996 ADI've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.Shia LaBeouf / quote ↗
04c. 1996 ADThey're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.Shia LaBeouf / quote ↗
05c. 1996 ADWhat's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.Shia LaBeouf / quote ↗
06c. 1996 ADI'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.Shia LaBeouf / quote ↗
07c. 1996 ADWhen you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.Shia LaBeouf / quote ↗
08c. 1996 ADI'm a little territorial and defensive. I don't like having my space invaded.Shia LaBeouf / quote ↗
09c. 1996 ADThere'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 / quote ↗
10c. 1996 ADI'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.Shia LaBeouf / quote ↗
11c. 1996 ADTo be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.Shia LaBeouf / quote ↗
12c. 1996 ADKnowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.Shia LaBeouf / quote ↗
13c. 1996 ADWhen people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.Shia LaBeouf / quote ↗
14c. 1996 ADI've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.Shia LaBeouf / quote ↗
15c. 1996 ADI don't even really know what it is I do for a living - the level of insecurity is very, very high. You're making a lot of money, getting a lot of accolades and positive criticism for something where you don't even know what you're doing.Shia LaBeouf / quote ↗
17c. 1996 ADI come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.Shia LaBeouf / quote ↗
18c. 1996 ADOnce you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is.Shia LaBeouf / quote ↗
19c. 1996 ADIf 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.Shia LaBeouf / quote ↗
20c. 1996 ADMy mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.Shia LaBeouf / quote ↗
22c. 1996 ADI 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.Shia LaBeouf / quote ↗
