Top 120 Shia LaBeouf Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “My family’s lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.”

— Shia LaBeouf

52. “Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we’re enjoying it, but I’d stop if it’s not possible.”

— Shia LaBeouf

53. “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.”

— Shia LaBeouf

54. “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.”

— Shia LaBeouf

55. “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.”

— Shia LaBeouf

56. “Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother.”

— Shia LaBeouf

57. “I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made – my swing is pretty hot.”

— Shia LaBeouf

58. “None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.”

— Shia LaBeouf

59. “I think envy motivates a lot of people.”

— Shia LaBeouf

60. “Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. Its not really anything; its 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.”

— Shia LaBeouf

61. “I’ve spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.”

— Shia LaBeouf

62. “If I have enough money to eat I’m good.”

— Shia LaBeouf

63. “No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it’s very open; my parents are both hippies.”

— Shia LaBeouf

64. “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

65. “I used to dirt bike a lot. I can’t do that anymore. Can’t eat a whole lot of chocolate anymore, either. I can’t be in ‘Indiana Jones’ and be a fatso!”

— Shia LaBeouf

66. “I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team.”

— Shia LaBeouf

67. “I’ve learned to be more reserved, watch what I’m saying; I got in a little bit of trouble. People tell me ‘Never lose that, never lose that,’ but then I get in trouble so I have to lose it. I’m trying to keep a little bit; I’m never going to lose who I am, I just gotta tone it down a little bit.”

— Shia LaBeouf

68. “I got to grow up in a situation where drugs were demonic. To watch your dad go through heroin withdrawal is something that would keep you from doing any of that yourself.”

— Shia LaBeouf

69. “I have a hard time with free time.”

— Shia LaBeouf

70. “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

71. “Well, you don’t make any demands to Steven Spielberg.”

— Shia LaBeouf

72. “I come from divorce. I’m only doing marriage once. It’s not a game for me.”

— Shia LaBeouf

73. “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.”

— Shia LaBeouf

74. “The big thing for actors is the level of commitment. So, if you know something’s already happened, there’s not a whole lot of whys and hows that go down. You just innately commit ’cause it happened. It does help with commitment.”

— Shia LaBeouf

75. “And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.”

— Shia LaBeouf

76. “It’s good filmmaking when you don’t have to say anything and you can still tell the story.”

— Shia LaBeouf

77. “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.”

— Shia LaBeouf

78. “This is hands down the biggest, most exciting thing I’ve ever been involved with in my life. I can only compare it to my Bar Mitzvah.”

— Shia LaBeouf

79. “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.”

— Shia LaBeouf

80. “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

81. “I am a season ticket holder to Dodger games. I go to every Dodger game I can go to. Every single one.”

— Shia LaBeouf

82. “When 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

83. “I didn’t read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.”

— Shia LaBeouf

84. “I don’t know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.”

— Shia LaBeouf

85. “I got accepted at Yale but never went.”

— Shia LaBeouf

86. “I drink protein shakes nonstop – three or four a day – and I run a lot, so you get rid of the bad carbs and keep the rest so you have the energy to make it through.”

— Shia LaBeouf

87. “I’d love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don’t see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg.”

— Shia LaBeouf

88. “If you can mix Hilary Duff and Gary Oldman into the same actor, that’s my goal. I know it’s strange to think about, but that’s the goal.”

— Shia LaBeouf

89. “I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.”

— Shia LaBeouf

90. “The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It’s taken me a long time.”

— Shia LaBeouf

91. “There is no grand strategy. My sensibilities push me in a certain direction. Other actors have different sensibilities. That’s all. I think it really is that simple. There’s no grand strategy. There are so many variables that I have no control over. I sign on to movies I want to watch, as a fan.”

— Shia LaBeouf

92. “I’m a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.”

— Shia LaBeouf

93. “Any time you’re a type, your career’s over.”

— Shia LaBeouf

94. “They’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

95. “But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It’s more work and more good work. That’s it. People will have their opinion regardless.”

— Shia LaBeouf

96. “To be able to sit in Donald Trump’s apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.”

— Shia LaBeouf

97. “My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an ’86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you’d ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.”

— Shia LaBeouf

98. “To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.”

— Shia LaBeouf

99. “My family, my parents are hippies.”

— Shia LaBeouf

100. “I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don’t have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.”

— Shia LaBeouf