Top 67 Quotes & Sayings by Elizabeth Olsen

What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.

I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it.

I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.

I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

I like men-inspired outfits.

It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.

I really actually enjoy auditioning.

I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.

I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

If you don't like something, talk about something else that's great and maybe someone else will discover it and think it's great too.

My friends and I started making films when I was still in kindergarten.

I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.

Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.

You want everyone to succeed in your family.

I've only done one shoot where it's modeling clothes, not like me in my environment. And the stylist, literally, I had her stand behind the photographer and do poses.

Everyone is always surprised by how old I am. They think I'm older, but it's always been that way. I'm the youngest of four - maybe you grow up quicker because you just watch the big people.

When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.

And I think in theater, people don't really focus on the media unless there's a huge superstar doing a play or something.

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

I'm the curvy one of the family.

And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character.

No, I wouldn't want the paparazzi ever following me in my life.

I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.

Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.

Normally I don't feel like having a belly full of pasta.

But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.

I don't know about you, but my girlfriends have been my girlfriends forever, and they're my sisters and my family.

I've always loved being a student.

I feel it is obvious when someone has thought too much about what they're wearing.

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.

I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.

I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.

And I've been taking acting classes since I was 7.

I get way too much happiness from good food.

I never wanted anyone to think that I would use my family name to get me anywhere.

My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.

I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.

I think a lot of films do themselves a disfavor by putting in way too much information, and everyone knows what's gonna happen next, and no one can actually discover things as they go.

I think there's something unique in the fact that her powers come from the same thing that powers him, and that is how we've made them have that kind of... that specifically in common, as opposed to it being something else that the comics kind of created, which has been pure romance. But they do have something uniquely special because of that.

I think part of that comes from time's passed, and she's been in an environment where training is part of the thing. It's not like we do a montage of her discovering her powers like in every X-Men film but yeah, there's no montage. But she does have these new abilities that we pick her up with.

I think every time you start a job, it's good to remember that everyone's kind of in the same boat, no one knows what they're doing. Everyone thinks that they don't know what they're doing.

People don’t need careers. People should just exist.

We leave Scarlet Witch without a home, without a family, and she ends up creating a surrogate family within the Avengers and making a decision to be a part of the team. I think a lot of that has to do with what Jeremy's character - like his attitude towards her and the speech he gives her at the end of the film. So we pick up with her having started a new life, but still trying to figure out what her abilities are and if using them causes greater good or greater damage.

In my acting class there was this acting exercise going on, and I remember asking a buddy, "Do you ever do this at your apartment when no one's home? Do you ever act out these hypothetical moments?" And he goes, "No, Lizzie, because that's called crazy." Whatever, I was 20 and doing it so who cares.

My favorite thing about acting is you have to learn how to work with people that you probably would never try to. Some people just aren't supposed to be in a room together, and you have to be in a room with a group of people who might not all get along and you have to figure out how to come together for one thing. That collaboration is special, and people don't get to exercise that. I think that's why people become stubborn, and I think that's why people become uninspired to change. In this job you have to.

Probably the most difficult scene to film was the one where I'm attacked. I haven't thought about it in a while because, in hindsight, you make jokes about it and you get funny stories from it. When I was talking about it earlier today, I started to realize that it took a couple days probably to get over. Even if you can laugh about it, it's still the physical things that your body has to go through, it's pretty insane.

I'm a very social person and I love being out in the world, and the feeling of not having that is the scariest thing to me.

When I'm wearing heels at events, my feet feel like they're sitting in pools of blood.

I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.

One time my mom tried to send me to my room for a time-out when I was 5 or 6, and I was like, "Fine! I like my room! All my imagination and toys are in my room!" I will never forget that. And she will never forget that.

I just think my family is so normal, but no one wants to accept that. I find my family to be normal because there's an understanding of what every job entails. And it is a job. It's not this fantasy that Hollywood and movies are all glitter and stardust.

When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms.

I would mimic what I saw in Grease and Guys and Dolls in front of my mom's mirror and I would practice voices and songs. When you put me alone in a room, that's what I would do.

If you can't really have a conversation with someone candidly about it it's something that you'll always have something to learn from when it comes to taking a literature class.