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I didn't jump onto anyone else's coattail and ride their wave.
Shia LaBeouf
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Shia LaBeouf
Age: 38
Born: 1986
Born: June 11
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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.
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I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle.
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I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team.
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There is no grand strategy. My sensibilities push me in a certain direction. Other actors have different sensibilities. That's all. I think it really is that simple. There's no grand strategy. There are so many variables that I have no control over. I sign on to movies I want to watch, as a fan.
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I was doing stand up comedy when I was 11, that's how I got started not because I wanted to do comedy, but because we were broke, living in Echo Park in Downtown Los Angeles, from 1986, I saw the Rodney King riots my parents didn't really work. But I wanted a new backpack, that's how I got into this business - I wanted a new backpack.
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My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind.
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All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.
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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 most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.
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I got kicked out of every school I ever went to.
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I am a season ticket holder to Dodger games. I go to every Dodger game I can go to. Every single one.
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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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I got accepted at Yale but never went.
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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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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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