Shailene Woodley Quotes

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.

At this point, I'm happy to be part of something special. As an actor I liked to choose scripts that I'm passionate about.

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

Acting is in your soul.

In college, that was when I felt that acting is the one I really wanted because I got to be my true self; this is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning, I have to write.

A life being enacted onstage is a thing of utter fascination for me. And acting, it may begin out of vanity, but you hope that it's taken over by something else. I hope I've climbed over the vanity hurdle.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

Essentially, I never know what I'm going to do until I read the script, but a good story is a good story. I would like to do more modern stuff, but ultimately, it doesn't matter to me - good stories are timeless.

'Little Fish' has reminded me why I fell in love with acting in the first place.

If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.

I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul.

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

Acting is so exciting to me. It's a thrill; otherwise I wouldn't do it. Not to be hokey, but I think life is definitely worth living, whether you're working or not. For an actor, the character is the thing... it doesn't matter what medium you're in. as long as you have something to do.