LaBeouf 'got into acting for money'

Shia LaBeouf has admitted that he initially became an actor for the money.

The Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen star told Parade that he started out as a stand-up comic but switched to acting for financial reasons.

LaBeouf said: "My humour came from seeing my parents have sex, smoke weed, my mum being naked - just weird hippie stuff, twisted R-rated humour. But there's no money in stand-up comedy, so I went into acting.

"I don't give a damn about the money anymore. I used to. Money is the reason I became an actor."

He added: "Acting is instinctual. The good actors are all screwed up. They're all in pain. It's a profession of bottom-feeders and heartbroken people."

LaBeouf recently described his mother as "an ethereal angel", saying that he would marry her if he was not her son.