LaBoof on what acting is really all about, via Us Magazine: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.
Sorry Shia, but you are dead wrong. If talent doesn't exist, and motivation and luck and ambition are the only real things, then why doesn't Arnold Schwarzenegger have ten Oscars? Arnold made it in movies on ambition and drive and good breaks, but there's still something out there that separates a mere determined hoofer and/or lucky sod from someone with real talent (who may or may not succeed on the basis of said talent). Your insistence that it's all a "con game" sounds like affected cynicism, which is what I'd expect from someone who desperately wants to be thought cool. Ain't working.
