And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need.
And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.
And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.
But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.
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 don't have to live this lavish lifestyle.
I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.
I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team.
I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role.
I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.
I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.
I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.
I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.
I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.
I'm not a tough guy or anything like that, but I grew up in a place where they were either going to laugh at you or punch you.
I'm very picky and I'm in a situation where it's a big crossover.
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.
If I have enough money to eat I'm good.
It's a big jump from child actor to adult actor, if you ever get there, and the ones that do don't always make it.
My family, my parents are hippies.
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.
No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.
No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall.
Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.
Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing.
So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect.
There's never been a parent in my life.
They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.
We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks.
When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.
You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.
You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them.
When Shia Labeouf was younger, a bad guy broke into his apartment and took ketchup from their fridge and wrote "DIE" in their bathtub.
Shia's mom's name is Shayna LaBeouf.
Shia's favorite old TV shows are The Cosby Show and Kids say the Darndest things.
Shia plays the drums and is an only child.
Shia started a hip-hop group/record label, Element, and a film production company, Grassyslope, with fellow actor and best friend Lorenzo Eduardo.
Shia's nicknamed, Rap Pi.
As of 2007 Shia has two dogs named Brando and Rex.
Shia is in the Fall 2003 issue of Alternative Press.
Shia's astrological sign is a Gemini.
Shia made a short film about a boy who had a lobster as a pet.
Shia has brown hair and eyes.
Shia is on a track called Where You Reppin with his friend G-Money.
Shia started his career at age 11, by telling dirty jokes in LA's comedy clubs.
Shia is in the October 2005 issue of Teen Vogue.
When Shia was young he went to an all black school. In an attempt to be more like them, he shaved his head. After that, they all called him Skinhead Whitey.
Shia used to have a crush on Mary-Kate Olsen.
Shia is 5'10?" (1.79 m) tall.
Shia wears a size 11 shoe.
Shia's types of girls are skateboarders & pretty girls.
Shia is only 2 days older than Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
Shia's parents are divorced.
Shia's favorite movies are "Saving Silverman" and "Dumb and Dumber."
Shia's favorite food is Mexican food.
Shia's religion is Judaism.
Shia's 17th birthday is 2 days before "The Even Stevens Movie" premiere and "Dumb and Dumberer."
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