Shia LaBeouf

As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.

Well, you don't make any demands to Steven Spielberg.

I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.

I come from garbage.

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.

Animation has completely changed, and I've always been a big fan.

You can go to college when you are 30 or 40.

The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.

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.

I don't even really know what it is I do for a living - the level of insecurity is very, very high. You're making a lot of money, getting a lot of accolades and positive criticism for something where you don't even know what you're doing.

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

My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.

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

It's really easy to fall for someone on-set, but in the end you know, it's a representative and it's not really them.

If I had more recreation time I would be able to step back and reflect on how life has changed. But it has been like a constant... boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!

No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.

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

I think the audience is pretty intelligent.

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 wants to do, 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he'd probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as I change.