Shailene Woodley Quotes

Everything when you're a teenager is a projection. Or at least, for me, it was. 'Who am I gonna be?'

People forget that when you're 16, you're probably more serious than you'll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

I think that as a young lady, you start off not knowing what you want to do, and then you kinda arrive at yourself by the time you're 17 or 18, hopefully. And that's what I did.

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

I'm a young woman, and I'm growing up and trying to do it in a way I feel comfortable with.

When you're young, you're still trying to find yourself coming into the league. I think Bron was trying to help me with that, but I was so stubborn back then.

I think that until we're 21, human beings don't get to know themselves very much.

I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self.

Rock 'n' roll says, 'Hey, man, this is where you can be normal,' and then after a while you grow up and you go, 'Wait a minute. Oh, by the way, I learned how to do these cool things, but I never learned how to speak my mind. I never learned how to express myself emotionally. I should have been paying attention more.'

It was only when I got to 21 that my personality started coming out a little bit more.

I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.

I was very immature - who isn't at age 12? Let's be real. Once I kind of figured myself out and grew as a person, I now have a ton of different friends and learned who I was.

I think that every human - and this is something, you know, like, your years from 14 to, like, 23 are kind of, like, super, super existential, and you're figuring out life.

High school is really when I came into my own.

When I was between 18 and 25 it was like I had problem finding the middle of my personality.

I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately, to communicate congruently, to take responsibility, and to take risks. The end of adolescence is the beginning of adulthood. What hasn't been finished then will have to be finished later.

They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?

Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.

Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young.