Famous Quotes

Quotes by Shia Labeouf

• A relationship to me is never about the romance.
• At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.
• 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.
• I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.
• 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.
• 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.
• I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.
• 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.
• I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.
• 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.
• I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.
• 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 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.
• I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.
• I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.
• 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.
• I'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.
• I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.
• I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.
• If I have enough money to eat I'm good.
• 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.
• Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.
• My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.
• My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.
• My family, my parents are hippies.
• 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.
• 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.
• My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.
• My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.
• Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.
• 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.
• So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect.
• The best movies are simple.
• The comic book world is a tough business.
• There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top.
• There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top. I'm 20 years old. I was in a relationship with a girl I love 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.
• 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.
• To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.
• Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.
• What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.
• When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.