Quotes by Shailene Woodley

About Shailene Woodley:

Shailene Diann Woodley is an American actress. Her first major role was as the main character, Amy Juergens, in the ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–13). She then appeared in the independent American drama The Descendants (2011), for which she received the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, and The Spectacular Now (2013), receiving the Special Jury Award for Acting at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead.
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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!

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For me acting is a passion and an art, and always will only be that. I don't have any rules when it comes to acting. I'll do anything. But it depends on the script. Either I'll have passion for the project or I won't. It's got to fuel me.

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For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.

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A quarter of my life has been spent on 'Secret Life.' I'm 20 and I've been doing it for five years, so I think the best moments have been when all the cast members get to work together and we get to collaborate and share experiences. We all grew up t...

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I feel like a turtleneck dress that's long-sleeved and covers your entire body but is tight fitting is so much sexier than boobs spilling out, you know? So I guess I'm more into being classy sexy versus apparent sexy.

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I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how that is possible.

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

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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. You have a pre-conceived notion of what you want the scene to be, but once you g...

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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 a...

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When it comes down to it, I'm just a girl who wears those five-finger weird toe shoes.

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I'd like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don't see them everywhere.

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I'm always like 'I'm too skinny, I can't gain weight, even when I try.' I'd like to try to not let that get to me.

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

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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.

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

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When I read a script or I see a character, I don't necessarily see the arc of her, that by the end she is this person, she's different from she was in the beginning. I guess it's more a subconscious understanding of that arc.

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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.

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I'm not really fond of the trails left in the sky and a lot of chemicals that are being pumped through factories and even in the clothes we wear.

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Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not.

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I think there's a lot of work to be done with our societies. My biggest passions are the environment and health. And when I say 'health' I mean the secrets behind health and our food system.

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Author Bio

  • NameShailene Woodley
  • Descriptionactress
  • BornNovember 15, 1991
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Child Actor