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LaBeouf's risky choices paid off when director Steven Spielberg saw him play a boy sentenced to boot camp in 2003's Holes. Comparing LaBeouf to a young Tom Hanks, Spielberg cast him in the summer blockbuster Transformers and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, with Harrison Ford and Cate Blanchett.

While trying to break into acting, Shia LaBeouf asked a fellow actor for advice. "He said, 'In order for you to be an actor, you've got to be a model first.' I said, 'Dude, I'm not a model, all right? I look like Garry Shandling. That's not going to work,'" LaBeouf told the Boston Globe in 2003.

Shia LaBeouf's last name is spelled incorrectly. "In French, LaBeouf means 'beef,' but mine is spelled wrong. It should be 'LaBoeuf,'" he told Parade in 2008. The name Shia isn't well-received in France, either. "Shia is a bad four-letter word in French. So the literal translation of my name is 'S--t the Beef.'"

Shia LaBeouf's ''flirtatious hippie'' father hit on his son's Holes costar Sigourney Weaver during filming on-set. "That's the most embarrassed you'll ever be as a human," LaBeouf told bestceleb in 2003.

Shia LaBeouf said the set of Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle was more play than work. "When I wasn't laughing hysterically, I was learning how to pickpocket from Cameron Diaz," LaBeouf told USA Today. (Diaz learned the skill for Gangs of New York.)

Shia LaBeouf's father, Jeffrey, a one-time rodeo clown who opened for the Doobie Brothers, lived in a tepee on a $10,000 plot of land Shia bought near the Mojave Desert in 2003.