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
If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong. Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. It's your own imagination, and your own version of it.
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.
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.
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.
Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing.
You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.
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.
Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.
Like, what do you say? Do you say 'Hey man!' Or would you say 'Hey peng?' Like, to be with Jeff Bridges, first of all, is a trip. Sitting with Jeff Bridges talking about how to be a penguin, it's like insane.
I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team.
I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet.
Oh, I've been in love with every woman I've ever worked with.
At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.
That's one thing I never had to do on a Mike Bay set is sit around and pontificate about the next scene; there's no time for it. You're already in the next scene.