In order to help those around you, and in order to even be a good actress and a good mother at the same time, you have to know your worth.

It's rare that you get to work with actors, female or not, where you all get along. Just because of the nature of humanity.

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

A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.

Everything that I own and use are in a carry-on suitcase.

I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how that is possible.

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.