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“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
Future
“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.”
— Shia LaBeouf
Relationship
“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
Respect
“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.”
— Shia LaBeouf
Cool
“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
Movies
“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
“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
“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
Sports
“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
Alone
“My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.”
— Shia LaBeouf
Family
“What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.”
— Shia LaBeouf
Cool
“My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.”
— Shia LaBeouf
Dad
“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
“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
Dating
“I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.”
— Shia LaBeouf
Money
“My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.”
— Shia LaBeouf
Family
“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
Dad
“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.”
— Shia LaBeouf
Change
“I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.”
— Shia LaBeouf
Family
“When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.”
— Shia LaBeouf
Positive
“I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.”
— Shia LaBeouf
Car