Shia LaBeouf Quotes

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different.

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

Some people fall in love with their co-stars and feel things that they never thought they would feel for them because they are touching.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

I resist the idea of there being on-screen chemistry. I think it's something that people like to say without thinking.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

We all do role-play. Sometimes behind the camera, and sometimes in front of it. I am the few lucky ones who have been able to wear both hats and especially have been able to romance the camera in a believable way, and I hope that this romance between us never ends.

For actors, the idea is that you convince people you're someone you're not.

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be.

Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.

I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?

When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!

Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.

Actors always want you to believe something else even though that's the truth and to do that well it's almost a dying art.

Just friends, just friends. Standing there in the bookstore, watching Seth walk away, I half wondered how anyone could still use that line. But I knew why, of course. It was used because people still believed it. Or at least they wanted to.

What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

Oh yeah. That's why. Like a fairy tale. I was marrying the Prince. I just happened to be in love with the pauper.

Love is like a card trick. After you know how it works, it's no fun any more.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.