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
All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.
Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.
I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.
I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle.
I'm constantly jumping off cliffs and developing my wings on the way down. ... It's a gamble, a ... spiritual gamble. You are who you choose to be.
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.
I love doing stuff that I haven't done before. That's the goal: To keep reinventing myself.
Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.
You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.
When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to island. You don't have to pick.
I became a Christian man in a very real way. I could have just said the prayers that were on the page, but it was a real thing that really saved me. And you can't identify unless you're really going through it. It's a full-blown exchange of heart, a surrender of control.
I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day.
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.
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.