Shia LaBeouf Quotes

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

Acting is the most difficult job in the world.

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

For me, acting is doing.

I would love to play Bobby in 'Company.' Also, I would love to play George in 'Sunday.'

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.

I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.'

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor.

Acting is a really insular thing.

A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

As an actor, I love a challenge.

My only job is to act and play the character truthfully and honestly.

I work with different actors with varied degrees of experience.

Acting is even stranger than I thought it would be.

As an actor, I draw from myself.

When I'm given a role, I'm consumed by a passion to bring to life a character that exists only on paper. I mull over the character for days and internalise his feelings.

I believe an actor should be shameless.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something that has to be paid attention to, in that they are, I would say, needy.