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" 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. "

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" I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns. "

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Movies

Choices

Gangster

" I think the audience is pretty intelligent. "

" 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. "

" I got kicked out of every school I ever went to. "

" I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both. "

" Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in. "

" But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless. "

" The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time. "

Shia LaBeouf

Acting

Time

" I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity. "

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Just

Inner

" 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. "

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Money

Lifestyle

" 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. "

" To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing. "

" My parents are retired, basically. "

" People are still emulating the old fashioned criminal. "

" I have a great house. "

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Great

House

" Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. "

" Oh, I've been in love with every woman I've ever worked with. "

" Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood. "

" 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. "

" My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind. "

" 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 drink protein shakes nonstop - three or four a day - and I run a lot, so you get rid of the bad carbs and keep the rest so you have the energy to make it through. "

" I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day. "

" There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences. "

" Look, you're on the set for six months, with someone who's rooting to be attracted to you, and you're rooting to be attracted to them. I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing. "

" None of my friends were ever as broke as I was. "

" I was planning on going to Yale to theater school. "

" 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. "

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Interesting

Proud

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

" 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. "