Top 70 Shailene Woodley Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I think the future of food is in insects.”

— Shailene Woodley

2. “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

3. “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.”

— Shailene Woodley

4. “Start small – if you drink soda, stop drinking soda. You don’t have to make every single change at once or overnight, you can make them slowly to adjust to figure out what works for your body, there is no formula and there is also no right or wrong.”

— Shailene Woodley

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

— Shailene Woodley

6. “If I’m passionate about something, I’ll do everything I can to be a part of it.”

— Shailene Woodley

7. “I definitely live for the small moments and the big moments.”

— Shailene Woodley

8. “Everything is sacred and nothing is sacred.”

— Shailene Woodley

9. “Have you thanked your body today? Be grateful, stay positive.”

— Shailene Woodley

10. “My religion is the Earth, man. I believe in trees.”

— Shailene Woodley

11. “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.”

— Shailene Woodley

12. “Worry is the product of a future that we cannot guarantee and guilt is the product of a past we cannot change.”

— Shailene Woodley

13. “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.”

— Shailene Woodley

14. “I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don’t have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?”

— Shailene Woodley

15. “I love arguing. I always say that I’ll never win a physical battle, but I can always win a mental battle. I mean, not really, because I never really argue with anyone.”

— Shailene Woodley

16. “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.”

— Shailene Woodley

17. “You forget that you do choose your life, and there are so many things to be grateful for. I feel like society has gotten to that point where we’re always looking for the next and the better, and we lose sight of what’s actually in front of us.”

— Shailene Woodley

18. “Everything is out of your control, and you can only be truthful about how you feel.”

— Shailene Woodley

19. “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.”

— Shailene Woodley

20. “I’d like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don’t see them everywhere.”

— Shailene Woodley

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

— Shailene Woodley

22. “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.”

— Shailene Woodley

23. “My only real insecurities in high school were having such long legs and thick hair – things I’m so very grateful for now.”

— Shailene Woodley

24. “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.”

— Shailene Woodley

25. “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.”

— Shailene Woodley

26. “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 together.”

— Shailene Woodley

27. “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.”

— Shailene Woodley

28. “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.”

— Shailene Woodley

29. “You really can’t prepare for anything in life. The second you know what’s going to happen, there’s always a curve ball, so I’m just chillin’, cruising along for the ride.”

— Shailene Woodley

30. “Clay is one of the best things you can put in your body.”

— Shailene Woodley

31. “There are a lot of mountains with a lot of water.”

— Shailene Woodley

32. “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.”

— Shailene Woodley

33. “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.”

— Shailene Woodley

34. “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.”

— Shailene Woodley

35. “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

36. “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.”

— Shailene Woodley

37. “Every single journey that I’ve embarked on, I’ve learned something new.”

— Shailene Woodley

38. “Do you guys have any raw garlic?”

— Shailene Woodley

39. “I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I’m a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.”

— Shailene Woodley

40. “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?”

— Shailene Woodley

41. “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.”

— Shailene Woodley

42. “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.”

— Shailene Woodley

43. “I live my life with a lot of integrity based on what I want for my life and who I am.”

— Shailene Woodley

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

— Shailene Woodley

45. “This earth is exciting. There are so many things happening.”

— Shailene Woodley

46. “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.”

— Shailene Woodley

47. “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

48. “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.”

— Shailene Woodley

49. “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.”

— Shailene Woodley

50. “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.”

— Shailene Woodley