Shia LaBeouf

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

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 think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.

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

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

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

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.

My family, my parents are hippies.

My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.

I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.

Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay i…

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 …

I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.

My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.

I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.

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'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.

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 …

If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he's probably shipping out for 'Transformers.' If you ask a 26-year-old what he…

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 mo…

I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.

The comic book world is a tough business.

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

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.