“Having emotional connections to things that don't really exist, like looking at a green ball and really loving that green ball, and being sad whether it's around or not. Stuff like that. I've never done acting at this level before so it was a huge challenge for me. It was a hurdle to overcome just to survive.” DoneStuffChallengesLevelsActingEmotionalHugeConnectionsOvercomingBallsGreenHurdleBeing SadEmotional Connection Author: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.” TryingKindLiteratureImaginationActingStudy Author:Shia LaBeouf
“Never wanted to do anything else than acting ever in my life. But I'm 20, and there's so many possibilities. It would be insane for me to say, "Yeah this is definitely it, I'm never doing anything else." I'm 20 years old. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know anything about life. So I don't know. I may be a train conductor in 10 years. I have no idea. And that's the joy of this all.” JoyActingPossibilityTrainInsaneConductor Author:Shia LaBeouf
“It's fun right now, and I love it right now, but I don't know where I'm going to be tomorrow, 'cause I'm not psychic. But I know that over the last 10 years, acting has been the only joy, this has been - it's strange to say, 'cause the thinking is off. But this is more important than my hobbies, my family, my love, my friends. It's the most important thing in the world to me.” ThinkingWorldImportantJoyFunActingStrangeTomorrowMy Family Author: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.” IfsWantInspirationalProblemMotivationalActorsActingMistakeSuccessfulCollegeProductivityTendenciesPreparationBeing SuccessfulScholarshipDiceYaleTurned DownCollege Success Author:Shia LaBeouf
“Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.” WayKindLiteratureActingStudyEasier Author:Shia LaBeouf
“The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.” ChildrenLongActorsActingTakenLong TimeAdultsHardestHardest ThingChild Actors Author:Shia LaBeouf
“You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.” ActingCompanyMillionsPlansRiskTreatsDollarsRidiculousPocketsFundDriversBusAppetiteMillion DollarsPensionHedge FundBus DriverPension Plans Author:Shia LaBeouf
“There's a way to do an acid trip like Harold & Kumar, and there's a way to be on acid. What I know of acting, Sean Penn actually strapped up to that electric chair in Dead Man Walking. These are the guys that I look up to.” KnowsMenWayLooksGuyActingWalkingLook UpChairsElectricAcidDead ManSeanElectric ChairAcid Trip Author:Shia LaBeouf
“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.” PeopleLittlesDifferentActingOpinionAdultsCrowdsGood Work Author:Shia LaBeouf
