Shailene Woodley
The thing with labels is they're not for you, they're for other people. Like labels are just a word for other people to understand you and that's it.Collection: People
I think you get the most honest performances when an actor shows up to set with their lines memorized. That's a very important thing that a lot of people seem to forget.Collection: Thinking
Twilight, I'm sorry, is about a very unhealthy, toxic relationship. She falls in love with this guy and the second he leaves her, her life is over and she's going to kill herself! What message are we sending to young people? That is not going to help this world evolve.Collection: Falling In Love
But in these few moments that we have here on Earth, are we going to torture ourselves? Or are we going to allow our lights to be dimmed? How do we expect men to respect women or women to rise to more power when we don't respect our queendom in the same way that men respect their kingdom?Collection: Men
I think you have to love yourself and you have to have a strong sense of self-love in order to really show up for other people, because if you love yourself, you're not questioning your own mind any more and you are really able to be present and available for others.Collection: Strong
I choose to surround myself with happy human beings. I went through the angsty period. I think every single person does. I think it's a rite of passage to hate the world and feel like the victim.Collection: Hate
I fall in love with human beings based on who they are, not based on what they do or what sex they are.Collection: Falling In Love
As a teenager, my struggle was how do I balance being empathetic and compassionate towards my peers, while also living my life for myself and not basing my decisions on those around me, and really living a life where I receive my happiness from my own experiences rather than from people pleasing.Collection: Teenager
I've been acting since I was young because I wanted to, not because my parents wanted me to. My dad is a principal and mom is a middle school counselor, so acting was like, "Eh, whatever. As long as you get good grades." It's really fun, and nothing more.Collection: Mom
The day the process of acting becomes something that I dread is the end. Obviously, why would you do something that you hate? I won't do that.Collection: Hate
I think every script has meaningful messages no matter what it is, because inherently life is full of meaning and every single day we lean a lesson.Collection: Meaningful
It doesn't matter how much more you have in your bank; if 50,000 people show up to your opponents' rallies and you only have a few hundred people, it says a lot about what the people of America are ready to do.Collection: America
I want to see and taste and experience it all, I am curious by nature. I would actually really love to go to New Zealand.Collection: Want
I always find it fun to read a script and then find the messages in the script because I believe every story has them.Collection: Fun
Nothing really attracts me to the film industry, to be perfectly honest. I look at acting as an art, and that's all it is for me. It's just fun.Collection: Art
Film and television are very different. On the TV show, we do seven or eight scenes a day, so time and money are of the essence, and we have zero room for creativity because you've got to do each scene in only five takes. Whereas, on a film, you have an entire day to film one scene, so you have so much time to choose how you want to fill in a scene.Collection: Zero
Everything that I own and use are in a carry-on suitcase.Collection: Use
Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.Collection: School
I only shampoo [my hair] once a month.Collection: Hippie
I was between 14 and 15, when I went through my angsty period. I was never very rebellious. I never did things to rebel against society, or against my parents, but I did think I knew everything. Then, one day, I woke up and realized I was a dot in this universe, and that quickly dissipated.Collection: Thinking
I love playing darker roles, or roles with meat. I feel very comfortable in that environment. I don't know why. I don't know what that says about me. I really enjoy doing complicated characters.Collection: Character
Do you guys have any raw garlic?Collection: Hippie
My whole life I've been so self-conscious about being skinny. And just recently I don't care anymore. All insecurities are projected because of what you think others are saying about you, but they don't really matter at all. My only real insecurities in high school were having such long legs and thick hair-things I'm so very grateful for now.Collection: Powerful
The word 'feminist' is a word that discriminates, and I'm not into that. I don't think there has to be a separation in life in anything. [...] Labels are for other people to understand us, so for me, I know how I feel and I don't need to call myself a 'feminist' or 'not a feminist' because I know what my truth is.Collection: Thinking
I haven't had time to think about a relationship! I literally have not had a boyfriend in almost five years. I've never even hooked up with anybody I've worked on a movie with.Collection: Thinking
If I'm passionate about something, I'll do everything I can to be a part of it.Collection: Passionate
I feel like at the end of the day, as entertaining as movies are, when you're part of them in a way, it's this beautiful art form and that's what it feels like for me. I'm not a painter, but I can express myself visually in a way that allows me to artistically create.Collection: Beautiful
The reason I keep acting is that it fuels some kind of passion in me, but the day that those butterflies stop, is the day that I'm gonna quit because I could care less about the magazines or being famous or the money or the awards.Collection: Passion
A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.Collection: Actors
In order to help those around you, and in order to even be a good actress and a good mother at the same time, you have to know your worth.Collection: Mother
I'd always wanted to do a film than TV show because film is always where my heart has been. I like diving into the character for a few months, and then leaving it behind. I love the idea of that.Collection: Heart
I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I’d go to an audition, my friends would go to soccer practice and we’d all reconvene and hang out in our neighborhood. When I would book something, I would never tell my friends. Acting was just fun. I was a kid, I wasn’t jaded.Collection: Soccer
Clay is one of the best things you can put in your body.Collection: Hippie
You have only 30 seconds with a new person. I will give you a hug so you know I’m real, and then you’re real too.Collection: Real
There are a lot of mountains with a lot of water.Collection: Hippie
Working with a green screen is so different than working with another human.Collection: Different
I'm fascinated to see the future of social media and also how the generation who grew up with it will evolve into adulthood.Collection: Media
I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to make a fire with sticks and I know how to build a shelter, but I live 90 percent of my life in an urban environment, so these skills aren't really going to help me because there aren't trees that grow in Los Angeles that I can just take a branch and make fire out of, because that wood isn't conducive for that. So I started learning urban survival skills.Collection: Skills
Romance is very particular to each individual and a very personalised thing.Collection: Romance
When you're on set and you professionally listen to what the other actors have to say, then the emotion is naturally evoked.Collection: Actors
All it takes is to pick up that one piece of trash you pass everyday on your way to work. Or to turn the water faucet off when you're brushing your teeth from afar. Or to compost. Or to buy 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper. Or to utilize vintage stores and secondhand markets. Or to fully devote yourself to only buying vegetables from local sources. It is remarkably easy to incorporate sustainable choices into our everyday, busy lives.Collection: Inspirational
Everything is sacred and nothing is sacred.Collection: Sacred
It's rare that you get to work with actors, female or not, where you all get along. Just because of the nature of humanity.Collection: Humanity
I'm generally a very annoyingly positive person, in real life. I think that might have something to do with my gravitation towards angry human beings on screen.Collection: Real
I have a tendency to talk extremely fast. ... I think the fastness comes from the fact that I get very excited about things and I just want to spit them out.Collection: Thinking
So many times, you get a script and it says, "And then, the character cries," and you read the lines and think, "That would never make me cry. Those lines are so untruthful." My approach is just to be honest to the situation.Collection: Character
You have a pre-conceived notion of what you want the scene to be, but once you get there, that goes out the window and it turns out to be a way that you never imagined.Collection: Want
I never thought Hollywood is the life I want to do. I thought acting is the life I want to do.Collection: Acting
I started studying indigenous cultures and I was really inspired by their life styles and the way that they lived. Part of that was knowing how to survive in the wild and knowing how to heal themselves from the plants that grew around them.Collection: Knowing