Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf
Shia Saide LaBeouf is an American actor, performance artist, and director who became known among younger audiences as Louis Stevens in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens. LaBeouf received a Young Artist Award nomination in 2001 and won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2003 for his role. He made his film debut in Holes, based on the novel of the same name by Louis Sachar. In 2004, he made his directorial debut with the short film Let's Love Hate and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth11 June 1986
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.
I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.
The best movies are simple.
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.
Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.
I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire.
If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds.
My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.
It's very weird because the 'It' guy usually is not the 'It' guy next year or even a guy that anyone is talking about.
Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. Its not really anything; its just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.
It's really easy to fall for someone on-set, but in the end you know, it's a representative and it's not really them.
I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.
I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.
My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.