Shia LaBeouf

Shia LaBeouf

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Actor and wordsmith — Shia LaBeouf (b. 1986) is an American voice whose observations cut across disciplines. Whether reflecting on Money or Respect, Shia LaBeouf brought uncommon clarity to every subject. With 53 quotes in our library, Shia LaBeouf is among the most well-represented voices here, with thoughts on Money, Respect, Relationship, Movies, and Family. Here is a taste of their wisdom: "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 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.”

— Shia LaBeouf

Dad

All Quotes by Shia LaBeouf

“At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.”

— Shia LaBeouf

Money

“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.”

— Shia LaBeouf

Respect

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

— Shia LaBeouf

Dad

“I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.”

— Shia LaBeouf

Respect

“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

Money

“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

Art

“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

Hope

“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.”

— Shia LaBeouf

Dad

“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

Cool

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

— Shia LaBeouf

Family

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

— Shia LaBeouf

Amazing

“The comic book world is a tough business.”

— Shia LaBeouf

Business

“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.”

— Shia LaBeouf

Relationship

“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

Relationship

“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

Dad

“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

Car

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

— Shia LaBeouf

Marriage

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

— Shia LaBeouf

Movies

“I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.”

— Shia LaBeouf

Positive

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

— Shia LaBeouf

Cool