Shia LaBeouf

Quotations

  • “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

    (click to view listing)

  • “I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.” -Shia LaBeouf

    (click to view listing)

  • “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

    (click to view listing)

  • “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.” -Shia LaBeouf

    (click to view listing)

  • “When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.” -Shia LaBeouf

    (click to view listing)

  • “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.” -Shia LaBeouf

    (click to view listing)

  • “You can’t have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can’t have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros’ pocket money. It’s fundamentally ridiculous.” -Shia LaBeouf

    (click to view listing)

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

    (click to view listing)

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

    (click to view listing)

  • “Knowledge 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

    (click to view listing)

  • “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

    (click to view listing)

  • “Knowledge 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

    (click to view listing)

  • “Knowledge 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

    (click to view listing)

  • “My family’s lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.” -Shia LaBeouf

    (click to view listing)

  • “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.” -Shia LaBeouf

    (click to view listing)

  • “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…

    (click to view listing)

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

    (click to view listing)

  • “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…

    (click to view listing)

  • “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…

    (click to view listing)

  • “The comic book world is a tough business.” -Shia LaBeouf

    (click to view listing)

  • “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

    (click to view listing)

  • “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.” -Shia LaBeouf

    (click to view listing)

  • 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. – Shia LaBeouf

    (click to view listing)


View More Quotations – By Author.

View More Quotations – By Topic.

Home.