Shia LaBeouf Quotes

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

There are a thousand ways to play any role.

As an actor, you create your own ideas.

I think acting is a work of imagination.

It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.

When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas.

I've had probably way too many acting classes, and you try to sort of shed - I think over a period of time, you'll shed what doesn't stick with you, and you'll hang onto those things that do.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

To be honest, I never went to school for acting, and I never learned to break down a script. I took acting classes my whole life, but they never taught me anything about acting. They just taught me about myself.

As an actor, the only thing you have is your instinct and your imagination.

Probably the best part about being an actor is that you get to be a traveling wanderer.

I never went to school to study acting, so I'm doing this purely on feeling, and I give it my all.

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.