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" You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them. "
Shia LaBeouf
Know
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" I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot. "
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" I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work. "
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" Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in. "
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" The big thing for actors is the level of commitment. "
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" 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. "
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" I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting. "
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" I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid. "
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" And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need. "
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