Birth Name
Megan Denise Fox
Nickname
Mega Fox
Foxy Megan
Height
5' 4" (1.63 m)
Mini Biography
Megan Denise Fox was born May 16, 1986 in Rockwood, Tennessee. She
has one older sister. Megan began her training in drama and dance at the
age of 5 and, at the age of 10, moved to Florida where she continued
her training and finished school. She now lives in Los Angeles,
California. Megan began acting and modeling at the age of 13 after
winning several awards at the 1999 American Modeling and Talent Convention in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Megan made her film debut as Brianna Wallace in the Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen film, Holiday in the Sun
(2001) (V). Her best known role is as Sam Witwicky's love interest
Mikaela Banes in the first two installments of the Transformers series: Transformers (2007) and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009).
IMDb Mini Biography By:
anonymous
Spouse
| Brian Austin Green |
(24 June 2010 - present) 1 child |
Trade Mark
Her tattoos
Dark hair and blue eyes
Porcelain skin
Petite figure
Trivia
Named #68 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. (2006).
Ranked #18 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.
She has Irish, French and Cherokee ancestry.
Is friends with Jennifer Blanc, Amanda Seyfried, Shia LaBeouf, and Michael Biehn.
Ranked #17 on interview magazines Hollywood faces to watch "Future Stars of Tomorrow".
She was voted #1 sexiest woman by FHM readers for 2008.
Ranked #16 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list.
Is both a fan of comic books and video games. Her favorite artist is the recently deceased Michael Turner.
Is a huge fan of animals and has owned dogs, cats, birds, squirrels and a pig.
Names Shia LaBeouf as one of her favorite people ever.
Was ranked #1 on Moviefone's 'The 25 Hottest Actors Under 25' (2008).
Engaged to Brian Austin Green from November 2006 until February 2009 when they called off their engagement. They then got back together in April 2009.
Ranked #2 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2009 list.
Her Irish ancestors were from County Tipperary, one of the first Irish counties to be established in the 13th century.
She has a quote from William Shakespeare's 'King Lear' tattooed on her right shoulder that reads: "We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.".
First ever female to grace GoreZone Magazine's front cover.
Lives in Los Angeles, California.
Engaged to Brian Austin Green for the second time [June 17, 2010].
Married Brian Austin Green in a sunset ceremony on a beach in Hawaii with his son Kassius as their only witness.
Was ranked #5 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 of 2010 list.
Has a fear of the dark and flying.
Voted #49 in the 2011 Ask Men list of the top 99 "most desirable" women.
Has
approximately 9-10 tattoos so far, including her husband's name 'Brian'
on her hip. Although she is removing the tattoo of Marilyn Monroe on
her right forearm (2011).
Ranked #14 in the 2011 Men's Health 100 Hottest Women of All Time list, she placed behind Angelina Jolie, Sharon Stone, Scarlett Johansson, and Catherine Deneuve.
Was banned from Walmart at age 15 after being caught shoplifting (stealing make-up).
Voted #96 in Ask men's Top 99 'most desirable' celebrity woman of 2012.
Gave birth to her 1st child at age 26, a son Noah Shannon Green on September 27, 2012. Child's father is her husband, Brian Austin Green.
Named #50 on channel 4's television episode "50 Greatest Plastic Surgery Shockers" (2010).
Personal Quotes
[on working with Michael Bay]
Michael Bay's name, if it's attached to a script, you know it's going
to be a huge blockbuster released in the summer, with jets flying over
at the premiere and all that kind of stuff. So, I knew it was going to
be a huge movie.
[on George Clooney]
He's sarcastic, and he has a different girlfriend constantly. It's
considered charismatic. He's like this James Bond, sexy dude. The older
he gets, the better he gets. It's a double standard. To be outspoken, or
different at all, is a problem for women. As soon as you curse or, God
forbid, make some sort of sexual reference that's a joke, you're labeled
a party girl. They don't do that with men, so I feel it would be a lot
easier.
[Director Michael Bay]
doesn't like really skinny actresses. He's been traumatized by them for
some reason in the past. So I always try to put on eight to ten pounds
before [filming], and I'm always the fattest I've ever been when making a
Transformers (2007) movie.
[on her Marilyn Monroe tattoo] I committed to having her face on my arm for the rest of my life, so I have to be a pretty big fan.
Wonder Woman is lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she's not invisible. I don't get it.
Look,
I'm not a lesbian, I just think that all humans are born with the
ability to be attracted to both sexes. I mean, I could see myself in a
relationship with a girl. Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing.
Zac Efron
is my obsession, we're the same person. We're not actually here, it's like [Janet Jackson] and Michael Jackson. He just puts on his wig and a dress, and it's me, and you don't know that. It's one of the greatest mysteries of all time.
Boys
in their twenties are a waste of time. They have nothing to offer
conversationally; they're immature. I feel like I have a better shot
with someone in his thirties.
When I go to a party, I always feel
like I'm chum. Like my agent is just chumming the waters until I'm
circled by all these dudes.
People assume that I'm really
promiscuous. There's a difference between being very sexual and being
promiscuous. I'm not promiscuous. I'm extraordinarily sexual within a
monogamous relationship. Nothing's off-limits. But that has nothing to
do with experiencing a lot of people. I've only had two boyfriends my
whole life.
If I ever lose a role because of my tattoos, I'll quit Hollywood and go to work at Costco.
[on Shia LaBeouf]
He probably is my favourite person in the entire world. Shia makes me
laugh harder than anybody I've ever known in my life. I end up crying or
almost peeing myself every time I'm with him. So he's just my favourite
- I love you, Shia! And he's really super-handsome!
[on Angelina Jolie]
I'm actually frightened of her, I haven't had the opportunity to meet
her and I try to avoid that because I'm afraid. Angelina's a powerful
person and I bet she would eat me alive. I guess that is why I'm afraid
of her. There have been a lot of films I've had to pass on because I
don't want people thinking I'm trying to emulate her.
When I moved
to Los Angeles I had no money. I remember needing to shave my legs, and
I didn't even have enough money to buy disposable razors. So I'd wear
pants all the time.
Women are expected to be conformist automatons
in L.A. but in Britain you can be more yourself and people will take
you on face value.
I don't trust male intentions, usually, because they don't approach me for intellectual conversation.
Hollywood
is the most superficial thing you could possibly be a part of and if I
weren't attractive I wouldn't be working at all.
I'm definitely
labelled in the pin-up category. I haven't given people a reason to take
my work seriously yet, which is my responsibility. I think the
expectation for me, as far as my ability as an actress goes, is very
low. I feel like that means I can only ever be an over-achiever when
people expect so little from me.
I was with someone from the time I
was 18 and I've never been my own independent adult. Right now there's
no space in my head for who's going to be next or how I need to fill my
time. I'm trying to expand myself and grow and be comfortable with who I
am before I get into another relationship where I'll just repeat a
cycle. Otherwise I will have ten failed relationships. I will be Elizabeth Taylor by the time I am 60 and I don't want that.
I'm
kind of a recluse. I'm a hermit and it's because I do have a great fear
of Hollywood, just watching what it does to people. You have to be a
really strong human being to survive it, as a girl especially. So I try
to avoid the Hollywood scene as much as possible and people who enjoy
the Hollywood scene -- that's usually a red flag to me. Some people
might think my life is boring, but I haven't been to rehab yet, so I
think I'm doing something right!
I didn't decide I'm gonna be an actress cause I wanna be respected for how I play chess.
I do have a 22-inch waist, I will say that.
[on Marilyn Monroe] I just had an incredible amount of empathy for her my whole life. I cry when I see her on camera.
I
worked at a Tropical Smoothie in Florida when I was 15. I would
sometimes have to go out by the street in a gigantic banana costume and
dance to try to get customers to come in. There was no anonymity - the
costume had a big hole cut out so that everyone could see your face. My
friends from school would drive back and forth and yell all kinds of
awesome obscenities at me.
I grew up craving the spotlight and
once it happened I immediately recoiled. It just always seemed really
glamorous. As a child you think everyone who's famous is very wealthy
and powerful. I thought my internal issues would be solved and I would
be this really confident person. And I'm not.
[on giving male
writers an amped-up version of her past] They're boys; they're easily
toyed with. I tell stories and have them eating out of my hand.
Sex and the City
(2008), the movie, was so tragic. Costume dramas bore me and Hollywood
comedies are total garbage, not funny at all. Fame doesn't mean anything
because anyone can be famous, and TV news is mindless.
I have no
friends and I never leave my house. You just have to make a choice to
just refuse to be involved with things that could get you in trouble.
It's easy when you feel upset or depressed about something to want to go
to a club and want to drink, but instead I just force myself to sit and
feel it and deal with it, and try to grow from it, because I don't want
to go down that path. I'm one of the most isolated people in existence
right now, but it's worth it because if I wasn't making that decision I
would be throwing away my career.
[on Angelina Jolie] She always seems otherworldly in her power and her confidence. I'm sure she has no idea who I am.
[on Transformers
(2007)] I'm terrible in it. It's my first real movie and it's not
honest and not realistic. The movie wasn't bad, I just wasn't proud
about what I did.
I think one day I could be a very good actress. But so far, I haven't done anything.
I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.
[on being asked if she had a crush on Angelina Jolie]
Absolutely. Every time a relationship ends, I say, 'If I could just be
Angelina's girlfriend, I would be so happy.' I love Angelina Jolie.
She's someone I admire and look up to. She's my favorite actress in
Hollywood. I just love that she's incredibly honest, and I feel that
she's not afraid to be herself. She tells you exactly what's on her
mind.
I am not a Jennifer Aniston or a Britney Spears or even a Lindsay Lohan,
you know? My pictures don't sell for that kind of money. But [of] the
small level that I do deal with it, it is hard and there have been times
[when] people don't want to hang out with me because they don't want to
end up on the Internet. I sometimes just turn around and go back home
and don't do anything and have to have someone go do my grocery
shopping.
[on her childhood playtime] I played with Barbies but I
used to decapitate them. I used to take their heads off then dye their
hair and do weird things.
[on rumours that she will star in a new Lara Croft movie] I think that's a role that Angelina Jolie mastered, and I would never attempt to take that over from her.
When
you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to
feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing
someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous
relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's
really kind of gross.
[on her role in Jonah Hex
(2010)] I'm sort of a tough, no-nonsense prostitute, like, she'll shoot
you in the head if she has to. And she does. Actually not in the head
but I get to shoot someone somewhere. It's a lot of fun.
I like to
cut through the BS. I don't like small talk and I don't like to have to
be a cookie cutter. That's a quality I started to develop as a kid in
middle school. You know how everybody goes into cliques and you all talk
behind everyone's back? I thought it was so ignorant. So I just really
started being completely honest with everybody all of the time. It gets
me into trouble often, but, at the end of the day, I think it's a good
quality to have. I have become a little more aware of the media's
tendency to twist things that I say.
If you know how to take
control of being a sex symbol, then it can be powerful. But I have no
idea how to handle it yet, how to deal with it.
If your idea of a
role model is somebody who's gonna preach to your kids that sex before
marriage is wrong and cursing is wrong and women should be this and be
that, then I'm not a role model. But if you want your girls to feel
strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is
right, then I want to be that type of role model, yeah.
[on
rumors she turned down the role of the girl in the 23rd James Bond
movie] No one ever talked to me about doing that movie. I would never
turn something like that down.
[on getting down to 99 pounds while shooting Jennifer's Body
(2009)] I decided I would turn myself into a zombie. I got super, super
skinny, stayed out of the sun for four months, and got to where I was
losing my eyelashes and my eyebrows.
[on the possibility of making
a sex tape] Ugh, never! That's the last thing I want to see - what I
look like having sex. It would take one shot of me not looking good and I
would not be able to have sex ever again, as I would always just see
myself looking like a hippo having sex. It lives forever, especially
now, with the Internet. I just can't. I just can't. Everything you say
gets judged, everything you do gets judged. Literally all I have left
are my private parts and I don't want to also share them with the world.
I'd like to keep them private. That's why they're called that.
I
was never a bad girl and still not. I challenged authority in school a
little bit. Now I just speak my mind openly. That's who I am.
I
like someone who has a super gentle spirit and energy, who's funny and
has a good sense of humour - I'm really gentle, and so I like a boy who
will treat me that way. I don't like boys who are mean to their mummies.
That's a real turn off for me. And I don't like boys who aren't
chivalrous. To me, not being respectful is a big deal.
I think
that God or the universe, or whatever you believe in, gave men brute
physical strength and gave women their sexuality. It's so easy to
control men with it, so I don't know why I wouldn't embrace it and allow
myself to be empowered by it.
I personally always find something
really scary about watching little girls learning to manipulate their
dads by baby talking. Then they grow up and use the same technique on
their boyfriends or husbands. That scares me because it's just so sick
on so many levels.
My sense of humor doesn't translate well into
print, some of the things I say can be offensive or found offensive even
though I don't mean them that way. So I have been told to try and
censor myself here and there. I'm trying, but I'm not really succeeding
at it.
I have no idea about my future career. I just hope that I
can still be working in 10 years. When you're in something as successful
as Transformers (2007), you can't use it as a sales piece for your ability as an actress because it's all about the special effects.
I
am very vulnerable. But I can be aggressive, hurtful, domineering and
selfish, too. I'm emotionally unpredictable and all over the place. I'm a
control freak.
I was not 'the slut' in high school. I was not an
outcast but I didn't have a ton of friends. I got picked on, and I ate
lunch in the bathroom because I was afraid of being picked on in the
cafeteria. I was a loner, and I think that's okay. I think it's
perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.
Little girls are
very much exposed to sexuality through the media and the entertainment
industry and advertisements. So when you realise that you have the same
power that you've watched women who've come before you have, it is
frightening and you don't know what to do with it. I don't think you
ever get comfortable with it. It's a strange, almost supernatural thing.
I
have nine tattoos. All my boyfriends are required to have one and if
they don't have one yet, I make them get a tattoo of my name or my face.
I
don't like dry paper. Scripts, newspapers or anything that's not
laminated, I have to keep licking my fingers. If I'm reading I have a
cup of water to dip my fingers in. I'm really neurotic.
I've been
afraid of the dark all my life. I leave the lights on all the time and
if the light is off, I have to run across the room to get to the switch.
I can't walk through a dark room. I'm afraid of what I can't see.
There
were some evil girls in my school and I went to Christian high school. I
was fifteen and everybody knew that my aspiration in life was to become
an actress. One girl came to school on Halloween in a black leather
catsuit and everyone thought she was Catwoman. She answered, 'No I am
'Megan Fox.' She was making fun of me. I didn't say anything to her. I
was really shy. I've always gotten along better with boys. That rubbed
some people the wrong way. I was not, ever for a second, popular.
Everyone hated me, and I was a total outcast, my friends were always
guys, I have a very aggressive personality, and girls didn't like me for
that. I've had only one great girlfriend my whole life.
There are
those who have a Google Alert on themselves and read everything
everyone says and then there are those who pretend it isn't happening.
I'm one of the latter. I could never pore over what's said about me. It
wouldn't work. I'd be a complete lunatic, drug-addled and out of my
mind. Instead I stay in and ignore it all. I'm actually kind of a
recluse.
... I've learned that being a celebrity is like being a
sacrificial lamb. At some point, no matter how high the pedestal that
they put you on, they're going to tear you down. And I created a
character as an offering for the sacrifice. I'm not willing to give my
true self up. It's a testament to my real personality that I would go so
far as to make up another personality to give to the world. The reality
is, I'm hidden amongst all the insanity. Nobody can find me.
If I
had been a typical starlet and said all the right things, I wouldn't
have escalated to this level. I sit down and do an interview and I talk
like a person and that, for some reason, is shocking. All women in
Hollywood are known as sex symbols. You're sold, and it's based on sex.
That's O.K., if you know how to use it.
Sometimes I so desperately
want to clarify. I recently had an urge to get a Twitter account to
explain myself. But me contradicting a news story is not going to make
my words fact. It will just create a new news story. There's no solving
this: it's completely its own monster. You have to come up with clever
ways of getting your control back.
I know that the things they said about me in the crew letter were not true, but Michael Bay
is not happy with some of the things I've said about him. I was waiting
for someone to defend me, to say, "That's not accurate", but nobody
did. I think it's because I'm a girl. They left me out there to be
bludgeoned to death -- on the letter that some of the crew of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) sent out.
When
I sit down to talk to men's magazines, there's a certain character that
I play. She's not fully fleshed out -- she doesn't have her own name --
but she shows up to do men's magazine interviews. There's something so
ridiculous about always being in your underwear in those magazines, and
you know the interview is going to run opposite those pictures. So,
there's a character that talks to all of them.
People compare me
to Angelina Jolie, and she's so serious and stoic. I'm the opposite.
When I do interviews, I say things that I think are hysterical. But
because we live in a world of sound bites, you're not allowed to have a
sense of humor. Sarcasm doesn't translate in print at all. And neither
does self-deprecating humor. I'm not a tigress like Angelina. Of course,
people want me to be. But I want to be the contradiction of that.
I
feel like that's my purpose in life, to do charity work and help people
around the world on a global level. Being part of this business, you
have so much influence and you can really make a difference. I'm drawn
towards the idea of somehow helping children.
[on her classic red 1966 Mustang Fastback Christmas present from Brian Austin Green] We were going through cars on eBay and I found one in really good condition that was beautiful and for a good price.
[on
her height] I'm tiny, and people think that I'm 5' 10" or that I'm big.
They think celebrities are larger than life, and I'm really short. I'm
5' 4".
[on her dream role] I like playing psychos, so any kind of mentally-disturbed female is fun for me.
There
are some women you could put in underwear and photograph them, and it
looks really classy and it doesn't necessarily provoke a pinup image.
But with me it does, immediately, as soon as I'm in underwear. I'm a
Vargas girl.
I feel intimidated by fashion. I hate doing photo shoots.
I
don't trust people in this industry. But I especially don't trust girls
in this industry, because it's incredibly competitive, and I'm just not
interested.
No one believes me when I talk about this, but I'm
really maternal. I worry that because I've always wanted [kids] so much,
as the world goes sometimes, I won't be able to have them. Even though I
would be able to provide them with such an amazing environment.
I
am a stepmother to the fullest extent. I have looked after Kassius
since he was three and he has no memory of life without me. For some
reason, no one wants to look at me that way, but I am responsible for
him and I've never struggled with that, from bedtime stories to the
school run.
I've only been with two men my entire life. My
childhood sweetheart and Brian. I can never have sex with someone that I
don't love, ever. The idea makes me sick. I've never even come close to
having a one-night stand.
I think people are born bisexual and
they make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have
no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite. I
would never date a girl who was bisexual, because that means they also
sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never want to sleep with a
girl who had slept with a man.
I've lived the life of a 35-year-old since I was 18. I'm so suspicious of boys-slash-men. I just don't like them or trust them.
Daniel Day-Lewis
is incredibly successful, and he's not being followed by the paparazzi. You put yourself in that position. You never see Nicole Kidman in the tabloids like you see Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson.
If I were to go out and make a scene in every club in New York and
L.A., eventually I would start getting a lot of press in the tabloids.
But is that something I want?
[on her fear of flying] I developed
that when I turned 20. All of a sudden I got really afraid to get on
airplanes. I had to come up with a way to deal with it because I didn't
want to have panic attacks every time I get on a plane. I know for a
fact it's not in my destiny to die listening to a Britney Spears album, so I always put that on when I'm flying because I know it won't crash if I've got Britney on.
[on her skin tone in Transformers (2007)] I had been tanning a lot so that [director Michael Bay]
would be happy with my skin tone. Every spare moment of sun that was
outside, I had to be in it. It's not going to happen again because of
the damage and the possible skin cancer.
I'm wary of doing
romantic comedies; you could end up doing them all the time.
Business-wise, those movies are very safe. They're tailored to Middle
America. But I'm 24, I don't belong in a romantic comedy yet. A black
comedy like Jennifer's Body (2009) maybe, but I don't know if I could do The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) or something.
[on what movie she would remake] Well, they couldn't remake it because it would destroy it, but I've always loved The Lost Boys
(1987). The female character in it is not really amazing, but if you
were to turn one of the male characters into a female, I would love to
do that. That movie has stuck with me my whole life. There's something
magic about it to me.
When I talk about my husband, I feel as if
people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini,
and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?' They can't grasp that
I'm old enough to be married.
Getting married was the best thing I've ever done.
I've
been a stepmother for six years and it's amazing...I really enjoy it.
It's a lot of work but I like it. It grounds me. I like being domestic. I
would love to be a biological mommy some day. That would make me very
happy.
I have a really offbeat, weird, dark sense of humor. My sense of humor doesn't really mesh well with sitcom television.
I've done drugs,
and that's how I know I don't like them. I tried several things in
order to make an informed decision, but I didn't enjoy anything other
than marijuana.
I've met endless so-called beautiful people who
don't seem to have personalities or a direction in life. They've never
been forced to develop their characters because they're viewed as being
so attractive. So I think beauty can be a mask.
I'm horrible to
live with. I don't clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I
forget to flush the toilet. Friends will tell me, "Megan, you totally
pinched a loaf in my toilet and didn't flush."
You won't believe
this, but I never go out. I don't like drunk, sweaty people whose only
goal is to have sex. I stay home and play computer backgammon. Every
once in a while, I go to Color Me Mine to do pottery.
I've worked
with people who have been difficult to work with, but have been male.
And there is never a complaint made about them. There is never an issue
made about them. I have friends who are actresses, who if they go to
work one day and they show up on set and they don't have a smile on
their face they're tagged a bitch and that is really unfortunate. But I
can't single-handedly change that process, but I'm trying.
[on director Michael Bay]:
He's like Napoleon and he wants to create this insane, infamous madman
reputation. He wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is.
I always wanted to be blonde when I was little, like Barbie and Pamela Anderson,
but it would really damage my hair. It was exotic to me, as my entire
family has dark hair. If I did it, I would go white blonde - really
platinum.
I try to keep my make-up fresh, clean and pretty on the
red carpet. My signature look is red lipstick worn with plain eyes, so I
apply a light foundation, then on my cheeks I use blush or sometimes
the same lipstick that I'm wearing. Giorgio Armani Rouge d'Armani
Lipstick in 400, contrasts well with my pale complexion and dark hair.
[on her naval piercing] I did it when I was 16-years-old because I was a fan of Britney Spears. The only time I tried to imitate someone else. But then I thought it was tacky and so I removed it when I turned 20.
Mickey [Mickey Rourke]
is such a beautiful, wonderful human being. He's so genuine and so
sweet and so talented. I just love him to death. I actually got a tattoo
that is sort of in honor of him. It's on my ribs. (The tattoo is on the
right side of her rib cage and reads: 'Those who danced were thought to
be insane by those who could not hear the music').
[on her Marilyn Monroe
tattoo] I'm removing it. It is a negative character, as she suffered
from personality disorders and was bipolar. I do not want to attract
this kind of negative energy in my life.
Of course, I have a lot of flaws. But I do not tell them - ever.
[When
asked on what she would say to Transformer Megatron to keep him from
destroying the world] I'd barter with him and say, "Instead of the
entire planet, can you just take out all of the white trash, hillbilly,
anti-gay, super bible-beating people in Middle America?"
I think that I'm so psychotic and so mentally ill that if I could tap into that I could do something really interesting.
I haven't gone completely insane, but it might happen soon.
I'm not kidding when I say that if I ever lose a role because of my tattoos, I'll quit Hollywood and go to work at Costco.
Really my only job is to look attractive.
Any casting couch shit I've experienced has been 'since' I've become famous.
I
absolutely want biological children. I've always wanted kids. It's just
about the timing. I have it in my mind about what amount of money I
want in the bank so that I can protect that child's future, and really
protect it, so that kid never struggles. Once I feel safe with that,
then I'll have kids.
I don't want to have to be like a Scarlett Johansson
- who I have nothing against - but I don't want to have to go on talk
shows and pull out every SAT word I've ever learned to prove, like,
"Take me seriously, I am intelligent, I can speak. I don't want to have
to do that. I resent having to prove that I'm not a retard - but I do.
And part of it is my own fault.
If you eat Chinese food, your
farts come out like Chinese food. If you eat Mexican food, your farts
come out like Mexican food. And milk, it's like - you can smell the
warmth in the fart.
[In the 2009 September/October issue of Wonderland on mental illness] I basically read every book ever written about Marilyn Monroe.
I could end up like that because I constantly struggle with the idea
that I think I'm a borderline personality - or that I have bouts of mild
schizophrenia. I definitely have some kind of mental problem and I
haven't pinpointed what it is.
I have a really badass personality.
I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go
toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation. So I'm not afraid to speak,
and I think that's what people read as this überconfidence. I have a
mouth and I'm not afraid to use it.
[on being fired from Transformers and on Shia LaBeouf]
I didn't want to talk about it while they're on the press tour because I
didn't want to try to throw mud at them. I didn't want that movie to
suffer. Especially because I love Shia. I wanted that movie to do well
for him. I didn't want to have this big media war over something that
really was so silly and it would have just been my ego needing to engage
in a war, at that point. Of course, there will be a time when I want to
tell my side of the story. I just don't feel it was appropriate while
they were promoting the movie.
I'm so suspicious of all
boys-slash-men. I just don't like them or trust them. They're boys,
they're easily toyed with. I tell stories and have them eating out of my
hand. Not all of it is true. In fact, most of it is bullshit.
[on removing her Marilyn Monroe
tattoo] You outgrow things that you love when you were a child. I got
it when I was 18 and now I'm 25 and it just doesn't make sense anymore.
[The removal process] is a hundred times worse than the tattoo itself.
I've only done one [session] so I probably have three or four left. I
think it will come off completely because I have the right skin type to
remove ink. The more fair-skinned you are, the easier it is to remove
dark ink, and I'm as fair as it gets.
I would really love to go on
an archaeological dig. I have an offer to go somewhere in England but I
would rather go to Egypt or Syria or some place like that.
I could go days, weeks, without talking to another human being.
I
hate receiving compliments; I hate being told I'm talented or people
think I'm going to be a movie star. I always feel that it's forced and
fake.
I'll starve to death before I'll cook for myself. I think I could survive a week without eating.
[on Rosie Huntington-Whiteley who appeared in Transformers: Dark of the Moon
(2011)] I haven't seen it so I don't know what she's like in it but I
think, having seen her around, she's a very likable girl and I don't
think she did anything wrong by taking that part. I mean Mike (Michael Bay)
wanted her in the movie. She was a model and she was like, 'Yeah, I'll
be in Transformers 3'. And I've only heard good things about her so I
have nothing negative to say.
I can't cook at all - I can make only Hot Pockets and Eggo Waffles.
[on
guys she liked] I've always gone for skinny, tattooed musician-types
who wear women's pants and nail polish. That's because I grew up
obsessed with Nirvana and Motley Crue.
[on having an obsessive compulsive disorder] This is a sickness, I have an illness, this is not O.K. anymore.
My
temper is ridiculously bad. I've had to say to Brian, 'You have to go
and stop talking to me, because I'm going to kill you. I'm going to stab
you with something, please leave.' I'd never own a gun for that reason.
I wouldn't shoot to kill. But I would shoot him in the leg, for sure.
Boys
in their twenties are a waste of time. They have nothing to offer
conversationally; they're immature. I feel like I have a better shot
with someone in his thirties. I've lived the life of a 35-year-old since
I was 18. I'm so suspicious of boys-slash-men. I just don't like them
or trust them.
I have no question in my mind about being bisexual.
But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who was bisexual,
because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that
I'd never want to sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.
I can't be naked in front of people.
[on
her favorite movie] I mean that's such a hard question to answer but if
you're talking about a movie that I'll watch a million times, The Lord
of the Rings series I will watch over and over again. And also the
recent Kung Fu Panda 2
(2011), I feel like that is an excellent movie. I watch it all the time
and I cry every time I watch it. I love it. It's funny, you cry, it's
beautifully shot, I love everyone in it.
[on parenting] (It) is
definitely the most difficult. There is the most reward in it, but there
is also the most pressure, guilt and worry. I've never really
socialized, I've always been antisocial and preferred to be at home. I
was never, even my late teens and early twenties, into clubs and parties
and stuff like that. So I feel like the transition will be fairly easy,
in that sense, for me.
I feel like if you are with someone
through the process of pregnancy and delivery, if nothing else, there is
such an incredible amount of respect that would lead into some sort of
love in one way or another.
[on lists ranking the most beautiful
women in Hollywood] You know, lists like this - and there are plenty -
generally, we elect the girl who plays in the biggest blockbuster of the
year.
[2008] Some of the women considered to be the sexiest women
alive look that way only because they've had three nose jobs and their
jaw lines shaved down. Sure, they're perfect now, but they didn't start
out that way.
I'm not pretentious enough to just sit around and
think about how I'm a tool for the whole Hollywood machine. But it has
crossed my mind.
Salary
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) |
$800,000 |
Where Are They Now
(September 2004) Starred in "Hope & Faith" (2003) as "Sydney Shanowski", replacing Nicole Paggi.
(July 2007) Starred in Transformers (2007) as Mikaela Banes.
(June 2008) Filming Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009).
(May 2008) Voted the sexiest women in the world by readers of FHM.
(June 2009) Attended the premiere of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) in Japan.
