Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf

And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.

Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf

I can't tell you how many hot dogs I've eaten in my life.

Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf

I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky!

Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf

Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It's not really anything; it's just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.

Shia LaBeouf
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.

Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf

I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner.

Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf

I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.

Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf

I was in a relationship with a girl I loved for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things.

Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf

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!

Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf

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

Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf

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

Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf

A lot of people like to think that golf is a lazy man's sport. Or it's a rich man's sport, or it's a sport that they can't be involved in.

Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf

I'm a little territorial and defensive. I don't like having my space invaded.

Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf

I think penguins are the most human of all the birds, which may be why people love them. They're cute, they stand upright and they look like they're wearing tuxedos.

Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf

Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.

Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf

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

Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf

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.

Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf

I come from French Cajun Jewish people.