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Shia Labeouf is a talented actor, producer, and artist who has made a name for himself in the Hollywood industry.
On June 11th, 1986, he was born in Los Angeles, California as the son of American parents. He attended Julliard School for one year on a scholarship but ultimately decided to drop out to pursue acting professionally.
His first lead role came in the Disney film Even Stevens which premiered in 2000. In 2004, he became a household name after landing the lead role of Louis Stevens in the Disney Channel Original Series, Even Stevens. His other significant roles include ‘Shia LaBeouf’ from Transformers (2007) and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). In 2007, he received widespread notice for his performance as Sam Witwicky in Transformers, which grossed $710 million worldwide and became his most critically acclaimed role to date.
In 2008 Labeouf was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture.
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47 Most Inspiring Shia Labeouf Quotes
“Do it, just do it! Don’t let your dreams be dreams.” ― Shia Labeouf
“The big thing for actors is the level of commitment. So, if you know something’s already happened, there’s not a whole lot of whys and hows that go down. You just innately commit ’cause it happened. It does help with commitment.” ― Shia LaBeouf
“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.” ― Shia LaBeouf
“To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be broken-hearted.” ― Shia Labeouf
“Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.” ― Shia Labeouf
“When you’re working with the best of the best, I’m not gonna put that on hold so I can work with people who studied the best of the best.” ― Shia Labeouf
“To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.” ― Shia LaBeouf
“Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is.” ― Shia LaBeouf
“I enjoy what I’m able to give my family.” ― 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.” ― Shia LaBeouf
“You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you’ll never be successful.” ― Shia LaBeouf
“There will always be opportunities to be in love again.” ― Shia Labeouf
“At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn’t spend the money I’ve accrued now.” ― Shia LaBeouf
“There’s something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion – I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.” ― Shia Labeouf
“Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.” ― Shia Labeouf
“When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.” ― Shia LaBeouf
“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.” ― Shia LaBeouf
“None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.” ― Shia Labeouf
“I’ve had to deal with all different types of situations – positive and negative and extremes of both.” ― Shia LaBeouf
“I have a hard time with free time.” ― Shia Labeouf
“I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day.” ― 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.” ― Shia LaBeouf
“You can go to college when you are 30 or 40.” ― Shia Labeouf
“The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.” ― Shia Labeouf
“Sometimes I feel I’m living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.” ― Shia LaBeouf
“I’m just selfish. I have to be for what I do.” ― Shia LaBeouf
“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!” Shia Labeouf
“Everybody’s got stories. I don’t want to not have stories.” ― Shia LaBeouf
“When golf used to be a rich man’s sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.” ― Shia Labeouf
“Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.” ― Shia Labeouf
“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 labelled 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.” ― Shia Labeouf
“I’m an individual, and I have opinions.” ― Shia LaBeouf
“As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.” ― Shia Labeouf
“I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day.” ― Shia LaBeouf
“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.” ― Shia Labeouf31. “I’ve had to deal with all different types of situations – positive and negative and extremes of both.” ― Shia Labeouf
“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.” ― Shia LaBeouf
“To my mind, talent doesn’t really exist.” ― 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.” ― Shia LaBeouf
“I think envy motivates a lot of people.” ― Shia LaBeouf
“I was doing stand up comedy when I was 11, that’s how I got started; not because I wanted to do comedy but because we were broke.” ― Shia Labeouf
“Nobody strives to lose.” ― Shia Labeouf
“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.” ― 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.” ― Shia LaBeouf
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.” ― Shia Labeouf
“Any time you’re a type, your career’s over.” ― Shia Labeouf
“The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It’s taken me a long time.” ― Shia Labeouf
“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.” ― Shia Labeouf
