Shailene Woodley
ON THE RECORD · 20 verbatim quotes · every quote source-verified
“go f–k this guy”
Shailene Woodley · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-11
Rodgers was quoted as saying his ex-fiance told him this just days after she agreed to marry him.
“because it always makes me cry.”
Shailene Woodley · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-11
Woodley admitted she hasn't shared much about her romance with Rodgers because it makes her cry.
“I fell in love over and over with unavailability. I’m very open as a human. I love easy, and I care easy, but I do not love lightly, and I do not care lightly.”
Shailene Woodley · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-11
Woodley described her pattern of falling in love with unavailability.
“empathy kind of kept me in this loop of feeling everything for everyone.”
Shailene Woodley · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-11
Woodley said she stayed in a toxic situation because of empathy for someone else.
“I find the performance of being something else in order to receive love or acceptance or work from others to be the ultimate form of soul death.”
Shailene Woodley · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-11
Woodley described performative behavior as the ultimate form of soul death.
“I’m very uninterested in the performance of people at this moment in life. I’m uninterested in the external value that we put on everything,”
Shailene Woodley · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-11
Woodley shared her disdain for pretentious behavior in a September 2024 Bustle interview.
“It was not right. But it was beautiful,”
Shailene Woodley · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-11
Woodley reflected on her former relationship with Rodgers after her eyes welled up.
“I used to be a person who, if you crossed me and disrespected that, would continue to give and give. And now you cross me, I respectfully go, ‘Thank you so much for that information. Have a beautiful life. I wish you well.’ Not interested.”
Shailene Woodley · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-11
Woodley explained how she now responds when someone disrespects her.
“A broken heart that healed and broke again,”
Shailene Woodley · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-11
Woodley explained that her opposition to performative behavior stemmed from a broken heart.
“Ultimately, that has helped me walk away without the need to understand why certain things didn’t play out the way that I may have desired them to.”
Shailene Woodley · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-11
Woodley said she has been able to walk away without needing to understand why things didn't work out.
“It’s really taken me a lot of time to understand that it’s not on me to fix or heal or do anything about [a relationship] other than protect the deep care and love that I have for the world and for my people,”
Shailene Woodley · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-11
Woodley discussed learning that it is not her job to fix a relationship.
“I give all of myself,”
Shailene Woodley · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-11
Woodley described her approach to relationships as giving all of herself.
“I had a really awful, traumatic thing happen in early 2022,”
Shailene Woodley · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-11
Woodley shared during a 2024 interview with Outside magazine that she experienced a traumatic event in early 2022.
“I felt like I lost my soul, my self, my happiness, my joy. I really understood depression and anxiety and, like, complete soul detachment.”
Shailene Woodley · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-11
Woodley described feeling she lost her soul and joy after the traumatic event.
“But again, who knows what the truth is. I could have been terrible and they’re like, ‘We can’t do this.'”
Shailene Woodley · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-29
Shailene Woodley joked about possible alternate reasons why her scenes were cut.
“like three scenes together, me and Andrew Garfield. And then like a year later, they were like, ‘So, you’re not in the movie anymore.’ And I was like, ‘What? What do you mean?’ And they were like, ‘We’ve introduced a lot of new characters in this last one, and we’re going to wait for… whatever happens between [Emma Stone’s character, Gwen Stacy, who is Peter Parker’s girlfriend in the film] and Andrew.”
Shailene Woodley · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-29
Shailene Woodley described filming scenes with Andrew Garfield and learning later that she was cut from the film.
“That was a fun phone call,”
Shailene Woodley · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-29
Shailene Woodley recalled the phone call informing her that her scenes were cut from the movie.
“was my dream because I really, oh my god, Spider-Man’s my favorite superhero. Mary Jane was my favorite character growing up. So, when I got it, I was like, ‘This is so exciting.’”
Shailene Woodley · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-29
Shailene Woodley discussed her excitement about initially being cast as Mary Jane Watson.
“’Let’s wait for [Gwen Stacy] to die and then we’ll introduce Mary Jane.’ Which made sense. But then they didn’t make that film.”
Shailene Woodley · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-29
Shailene Woodley recounted what she was told regarding the plan to introduce Mary Jane Watson.
“Well, that’s what I was told, you know,”
Shailene Woodley · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-29
Shailene Woodley commented on the explanation filmmakers gave for removing her character.