Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.

Alcohol is a big part of high school. I went through my little phase. I don't know one high schooler that doesn't.

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

There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays.

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?

It doesn't matter how much more you have in your bank; if 50,000 people show up to your opponents' rallies and you only have a few hundred people, it says a lot about what the people of America are ready to do.

I fall in love with human beings based on who they are, not based on what they do or what sex they are.