SHIA LABEOUF

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

There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.

I feel like I'm really honest in my interviews, to a fault. I've lost friends over it. Major friends. And I'm heartbroken about that.

My life is okay, my life is pretty good.

Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing.

My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.

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

That's one thing I never had to do on a Mike Bay set is sit around and pontificate about the next scene; there's no time for it. You're already in the next scene.

There's never been a parent in my life.

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.

I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.

My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind.

If I want to party, I'll party at my house.

I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.

I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.

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

Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor.

Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is.

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

I don't have many actor friends.

I have a hard time with free time.

If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds.

No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.