Shailene Woodley Quotes

You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.

I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.

My only self-confidence and satisfaction comes from the people that I do meet; I have fondness for people. I mean, I like to hug. And I also like to be hugged.

An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.

I guess when you see somebody in the hallway or on the field or something, it's nice to know that they are a real person.

We’re creatures of contact regardless of whether/ we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together.

If you put your personal stories out there people always connect.

People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.

When you hug someone, you learn something else about them. An important something else.

Every Day you should reach out and touch someone

We were created to look at one another, weren't we?

Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.

The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world.

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

P.P.S. I am giving you telepathic hugs. P.P.P.S. But not in a telepathically lezzie way.

To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not enough.

I really just enjoy listening to talk [to John Hurt and Charlotte Rampling]... not even about acting or anything. It's interesting because I felt really connected to all these people very easily. They're all very open emotionally, like we're in the scene together, so you never feel like anyone's acting.

In order to know somebody through their words, I mean, it has to be an, it has to be a letter, you know? It has to be a long e-mail. It has to be a five-page hand-written letter, you know, it has to be overwhelming and messy and sloppy as humans are.

I think people are people and if their feelings are real and truthful, they can connect.

You can write a whole fiction, and you're talking to people who have gone through that, in real life. But the truth of it is that when you're talking to those people, you don't care about your movie anymore. You just want to hear about what they have gone through. You want all of the details. It's amazing.

The most important thing in my life, and the thing I try to focus on, is to try not to live a life of cruelty. That means trying to make sure I look people in the eye when I meet them. Sometimes you jump in a taxi, or maybe you only have two minutes with someone, and you never see them again. I try to always look them in the eye and have a real experience of what it is to communicate with someone.

Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive.

When you look in the eyes of someone and that's what you look into, I knew him with my blood. It's not something you can actually ever get to, I don't think, without that. It was a huge gift, as an actor.