I was doing stand up comedy when I was 11, that's how I got started; not because I … - Shia LaBeouf

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I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

Shia LaBeouf

I was doing stand up comedy when I was 11, that's how I got started; not because I wanted to do comedy, but because we were broke, living in Echo Park in Downtown Los Angeles, from 1986, I saw the Rodney King riots; my parents didn't really work. But I wanted a new backpack, that's how I got into this business - I wanted a new backpack.

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I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.

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Never wanted to do anything else than acting ever in my life. But I'm 20, and there's so many possibilities. It would be insane for me to say, "Yeah this is definitely it, I'm never doing anything else. " I'm 20 years old. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know anything about life. So I don't know. I may be a train conductor in 10 years. I have no idea. And that's the joy of this all.

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You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

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