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.

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.

If I have enough money to eat I`m good.

[when asked about what type of girls he likes] I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality, too. I`m very picky.

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.

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.

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.

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

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`m not an Adonis, that`s for damn sure. I`ve never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn`t matter to me. My favorite actors aren`t Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man; he`s amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking; people love him. Same with Gene Hackman.

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.

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.

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.

No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn`t know who I was from a fly on the wall.

I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.

My family, my parents are hippies.

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 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.

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

[when asked about what it`s like to be a celebrity] I`ll tell you when I become one.

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.

I don`t have to live this lavish lifestyle.

[on his co-star Harrison Ford]I`ve been fortunate enough to work with Harrison on (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the) Crystal Skull, and I can honestly say it is a dream come true. He`s a man`s man. And he`s incredible because he make movies even better, because we love him as much as Indy hates snakes, and because he`s captain of the goddamn Millenium Falcon!

Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor. You get so many invites . . . partying has never interested me. My dad was a drug addict. There`s something about watching your dad go through heroin withdrawal when you`re 11. It`s not interesting anymore. I`m not individualizing this. There are lots of kids that deal with this. I`m an `80s baby; that`s what was going on.

I got to grow up in a situation where drugs were demonic. To watch your dad go through heroin withdrawal is something that would keep you from doing any of that yourself.

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.

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.

I was billed as the ten-year-old kid with the 50-year-old mouth. I knew if I wanted to work in the business, funny would be good because I looked like Garry Shandling.

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

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.

There`s never been a parent in my life.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I`m very picky and I`m in a situation where it`s a big crossover.

Would I want to win an Oscar before I`m 40? Maybe. Would I want to win one before I`m 25? No.

On being a celebrity) Shia LaBeouf: I`ll tell you when I become one

(Why he became an actor) Shia LaBeouf: Greed. I was poor and it was a way to get out of the hood.

I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can`t even talk about my own handicap because it`s too upsetting

Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor. You get so many invites . . . partying has never interested me. My dad was a drug addict. There`s something about watching your dad go through heroin withdrawal when you`re 11. It`s not interesting anymore. I`m not individualizing this. There are lots of kids that deal with this. I`m an `80s baby; that`s what was going on

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

People think that their vote counts. They go to college, and everything gets mixed up. People stop caring, ... They raise the gas prices, but what the Everyman makes and welfare never seem to keep up. The HMO system is so ridiculous. I`m slightly educated. No one wants to hear what Hilary Duff thinks of the economy

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.

To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.

(When asked about what girls he likes) I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I`m very picky!