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I always find it fun to read a script and then find the messages in the script because I believe every story has them.
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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.
Shailene Woodley
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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.
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Every single morning you wake up with the opportunity to be yourself, or be the idea of someone else. For me it is all about... my favourite mantra is: "You do you. I do me. They do they."
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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.
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I'm not an actor who approaches films doing a lot of research. I do zero research, unless it's a film where I'm playing a mock version of someone who already existed. Then, you've got to do a lot of research.
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I feel like I'm kind of an obvious person. I like to keep some things in my life sacred, like keep the sacred, sacred. Apart from that part of my life, I'm a very open person.
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Every single journey that I've embarked on, I've learned something new.
Shailene Woodley
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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.
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When you're on set and you professionally listen to what the other actors have to say, then the emotion is naturally evoked.
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There are a lot of mountains with a lot of water.
Shailene Woodley -
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.
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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.
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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.
Shailene Woodley
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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.
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I think there is a point in every teenager's life where they are forced to come into themselves.
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I'm already the most fortunate girl in the world, so I have zero expectations for what the future will bring.
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Everything is sacred and nothing is sacred.
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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.
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I'm done living for other people. I'm done being a people pleaser. I'm done thinking about what people think about me.
Shailene Woodley
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It's hard to talk about politics in a Hollywood world.
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I definitely live for the small moments and the big moments.
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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.
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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.
Shailene Woodley