Shailene Woodley Quotes - Page 4

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.

I only shampoo [my hair] once a month.

If I'm passionate about something, I'll do everything I can to be a part of it.

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.

Every single journey that I've embarked on, I've learned something new.

I think there is a point in every teenager's life where they are forced to come into themselves.

Alcohol is a big part of high school. I went through my little phase. I don't know one high schooler that doesn't.

George Clooney is a super-human, he's just such an amazing human being, he taught me how to be a better person and a better actor!

For me, my rule in this industry is I've got to listen to my butterflies. So if I got butterflies, then those are the scripts I go after.

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.

I'm already the most fortunate girl in the world, so I have zero expectations for what the future will bring.

It's hard to talk about politics in a Hollywood world.

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.

When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.

Everything that I own and use are in a carry-on suitcase.

There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays.

I definitely live for the small moments and the big moments.

My favorite movies are movies that I go in and I leave deeply affected. Whether I laugh really hard or whether I cry really hard, I just want to feel really affected in that moment.

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.

Do you guys have any raw garlic?

George Clooney sort of lost his 'George Clooney-ness' the first day I met him. He's not George Clooney in my eyes - he's George from Kentucky with an awesome, awesome heart.

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.

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.

Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next.

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.