I can't tell you how many hot dogs I've eaten in my life.
Shia LaBeouf
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.
And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.
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.
Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.
I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky!
Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It's not really anything; it's 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.
My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.
I'm a little territorial and defensive. I don't like having my space invaded.
My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.
I think penguins are the most human of all the birds, which may be why people love them. They're cute, they stand upright and they look like they're wearing tuxedos.
I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner.
At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.
I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.
I got accepted at Yale but never went.
I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.
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.
In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.
My life is okay, my life is pretty good.
When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.
A lot of people like to think that golf is a lazy man's sport. Or it's a rich man's sport, or it's a sport that they can't be involved in.
I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.
The comic book world is a tough business.
I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle.
If I had more recreation time I would be able to step back and reflect on how life has changed. But it has been like a constant... boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!
Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.
I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.
I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg.
I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.
I got kicked out of every school I ever went to.
I'm kind of bi-polar.
People are still emulating the old fashioned criminal.
I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day.
I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man; he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking; people love him. Same with Gene Hackman.
If people perceive you as a good actor then they'll wish for you to be a good actor and they'll root for you when they watch you, but if you come out and you're going to clubs every night people don't root for you anymore.
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.
I don't even really know what it is I do for a living - the level of insecurity is very, very high. You're making a lot of money, getting a lot of accolades and positive criticism for something where you don't even know what you're doing.
If I have enough money to eat I'm good.
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.
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.
Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.
When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.
Well, you don't make any demands to Steven Spielberg.
When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.
I'm not a star, I'm an actor.
My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money.
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.
Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.
A relationship to me is never about the romance.
I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.
