Shia LaBeouf keeps it real
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” press conference at Kring on June 10, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea.
I officially feel really bad for Shia LaBeouf. I always found that there was something a little depressing about him but I couldn’t really place it. Well he spoke very candidly with Parade Magazine and what he says might shock you!
“[From] seeing my parents have sex, smoke weed, my mom being naked…and twisted R-rated humor,” he tells the latest issue of Parade magazine about how he got his humor.
LaBeouf — who once called his mom “the sexiest woman I know” — admits: “The good actors are all screwed up.
“They’re all in pain. It’s a profession of bottom-feeders and heartbroken people,” he goes on.
The 23-year-old says that when he’s feeling insecure, he stops his bike on the side of a busy road to see if people passing by recognize him (he’s afraid they won’t).
“Actors live dependent on being validated by other people’s opinions. I don’t understand what it is I do that people want. I don’t know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don’t know what I’m doing. To my mind, talent doesn’t really exist. Talent is like a card player’s luck. It is motivation, ambition, and luck. It’s just a drive to be the best. I think acting is a con game.”
LaBeouf admits he doesn’t “handle fame well.”
“Most actors on most days don’t think they’re worthy,” he goes on. “I have no idea where this insecurity comes from, but it’s a God-sized hole. If I knew, I’d fill it, and I’d be on my way.”
LaBeouf goes on: “Sometimes I feel I’m living a meaningless life and I get frightened. I know I’m one of the luckiest dudes in America right now. I have a great house. My parents don’t have to work. I’ve got money. I’m famous. But it could all change, man. It could go away. You never know.”
This is what I know many of us think actors feel but they always try to make it look like they live such a fabulous life. I’m not saying they all feel like this but there are so many celebrities who have died of overdoses or in awkward circumstances that is really makes you think if they have felt this way also.
Fame is not all its cracked up to be.
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