Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf
Shia Saide LaBeouf is an American actor, performance artist, and director who became known among younger audiences as Louis Stevens in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens. LaBeouf received a Young Artist Award nomination in 2001 and won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2003 for his role. He made his film debut in Holes, based on the novel of the same name by Louis Sachar. In 2004, he made his directorial debut with the short film Let's Love Hate and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth11 June 1986
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.
There's beauty in people who reinvent themselves. Actors live a thousand lives, as do hackers ... the personality can play around forever.
Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.
Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.
Hey, I'm a human being also.
I am a season ticket holder to Dodger games. I go to every Dodger game I can go to. Every single one.
I didn't jump onto anyone else's coattail and ride their wave.
Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.
I'm an individual, and I have opinions.
If I have enough money to eat I'm good.
In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.
People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!