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" 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

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" I didn't jump onto anyone else's coattail and ride their wave. "

" I used to dirt bike a lot. I can't do that anymore. Can't eat a whole lot of chocolate anymore, either. I can't be in 'Indiana Jones' and be a fatso! "

" 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. "

" When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it. "

" Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing. "

" And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap. "

" There will always be opportunities to be in love again. "

" I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot. "

" My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind. "

" What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals. "

" I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do. "

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You

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" Every actor chooses their story at the beginning. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened. "

" I have a very nappy, curly head. "

" Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be. "

" I think I'm prone to not being a good guy in relationships. "

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" I am a season ticket holder to Dodger games. I go to every Dodger game I can go to. Every single one. "