Top 120 Shia LaBeouf Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you’re tired of starting over, stop giving up.”

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

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3. “Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.”

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4. “I didn’t jump onto anyone else’s coattail and ride their wave.”

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5. “I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day.”

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6. “My parents are retired, basically.”

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7. “Hey, I’m a human being also.”

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

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9. “You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you’ll never be successful.”

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10. “Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.”

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11. “I wasn’t cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.”

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12. “I’ve never been able to learn from other people’s mistakes – I’m not that smart – so I usually learn by trial by fire.”

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

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14. “I’m not a strikingly handsome guy, but I’m in movies.”

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15. “My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.”

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16. “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.”

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17. “You have to be a master to teach.”

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18. “I’m a little territorial and defensive.”

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19. “Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.”

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20. “When the ship is sinking and you’re forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to island. You don’t have to pick.”

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21. “My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.”

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22. “A relationship to me is never about the romance.”

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23. “My life is okay, my life is pretty good.”

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24. “I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there’s a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you’ll never be successful.”

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25. “Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.”

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

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27. “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.”

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28. “I was in a relationship with a girl I loved for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you’ve got to start thinking about other things, and I’m too young to think about those things.”

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29. “I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.”

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30. “To my mind, talent doesn’t really exist.”

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31. “I don’t have to live this lavish lifestyle.”

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32. “I feel like I’m really honest in my interviews, to a fault. I’ve lost friends over it. Major friends. And I’m heartbroken about that.”

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33. “I’m trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, ’cause that’s my go-to, it seems.”

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34. “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.”

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35. “All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can’t blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.”

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36. “People are still emulating the old fashioned criminal.”

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

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38. “I didn’t know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.”

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39. “I love doing stuff that I haven’t done before. That’s the goal: To keep reinventing myself.”

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40. “Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.”

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41. “The comic book world is a tough business.”

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42. “I’m just selfish. I have to be for what I do.”

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

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44. “I became a Christian man in a very real way. I could have just said the prayers that were on the page, but it was a real thing that really saved me. And you can’t identify unless you’re really going through it. It’s a full-blown exchange of heart, a surrender of control.”

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45. “People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on ‘Even Stevens.’ It was like a dream!”

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46. “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.”

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47. “I’m an individual, and I have opinions.”

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48. “What’s cool is when you’re able to give your audience imagination and you don’t have to cage them in like animals.”

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49. “I’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.”

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50. “My family’s lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.”

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