3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf I’m a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf What’s cool is when you’re able to give your audience imagination and you don’t have to cage them in like animals.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf 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.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf I turned down twelve films last year… Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn’t spend the money I’ve accrued now.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf Well, there’s different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I’m working in this business but I’m not Hollywood.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf I’ve had to deal with all different types of situations – positive and negative and extremes of both.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf 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.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf To be able to sit in Donald Trump’s apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf 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.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf 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.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf 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.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf 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.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf 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.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf 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.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf 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.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf I come from divorce. I’m only doing marriage once. It’s not a game for me.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf 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.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.
