Shia: [when asked about what it's like to be a celebrity] I'll tell you when I become one.
Shia: To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.
Shia: Talent is funny, I've always looked at talent like what the hell does talent really mean? 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. I wouldn't want to think of myself as talented it doesn't seem like there's any validity in that. I like to think of myself as an ordinary man with extra ordinary determination. That's it.
Shia: atuação is mais of an art form than an occupation.
Shia: Would I want to win an Oscar before I'm 40? Maybe. Would I want to win one before I'm 25? No.
Shia: You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.
Shia: 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: clubes are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor. You get so many invites . . . partying has never interested me. My dad was a drug addict. There's something about watching your dad go through heroin withdrawal when you're 11. It's not interesting anymore. I'm not individualizing this. There are lots of kids that deal with this. I'm an '80s baby; that's what was going on.
Shia: I was billed as the ten-year-old kid with the 50-year-old mouth. I knew if I wanted to work in the business, funny would be good because I looked like Garry Shandling.
Shia: It would be fun to be the Giants' Jeremy Shockey or the Colts' Peyton Manning for a game or two. But I wouldn't permanently want to be anybody but myself.
Shia: [When asked about what girls he likes] I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gótico type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky!
Shia: [about being accepted to Yale around the same time he landed a role in a Steven Spielberg film] I'd amor to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me mais than Steven Spielberg.
Shia: I used to dirt bike a lot. I can't do that anymore. Can't eat a whole lot of chocolate anymore, either. I can't be in Indiana Jones and be a fatso!
Shia: I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.
Shia: People think that their vote counts. They go to college, and everything gets mixed up. People stop caring, ... They raise the gas prices, but what the Everyman makes and welfare never seem to keep up. The HMO system is so ridiculous. I'm slightly educated. No one wants to hear what Hilary Duff thinks of the economy.
Shia: [on his co-star Harrison Ford]I've been fortunate enough to work with Harrison on (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the) Crystal Skull, and I can honestly say it is a dream come true. He's a man's man. And he's incredible because he make filmes even better, because we amor him as much as Indy hates snakes, and because he's captain of the goddamn Millenium Falcon!
