Top 174 Quotes & Sayings by Olivia Wilde
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.
What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.
People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.
I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.
Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.
I used to experiment all the time with my hair color.
Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.
When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn't what I was picked for at first, for films and TV.
Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
Inspiration is the key to everything.
I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.
I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.
My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.
I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.
From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
I guess for my skin, I clean it and moisturize and try to drink water. How boring is this though? I'm convinced that it comes from within. If you're happy and healthy, it shows.
I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.
Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.
Mick Jagger has been an idol of mine since I was 10 years old. Through his music, he has taught me so much about rock n' roll, but also about the blues and about the experience of live music, going to several Rolling Stones shows, growing up.
I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.
I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.
I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.
I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.
Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.
So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.
I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn't wait to get back to Ardmore.
I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
All actors should experience public failure.
People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
I got an internship with the casting director of The Girl Next Door. I would hold the clipboard and help them in their casting sessions and get them lunch.
It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually left 'Cowboys & Aliens' and went straight into 'The Change-Up.' It was kind of a funny change of pace.
It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'
Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.
Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
I was a handful growing up.
I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
If I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's a double standard.
I shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair.
But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.
When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.
In a relationship I'm a very loving person, emotional and sensitive.
I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression.
I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.
If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.
I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
Cleanses and products don't make you look more beautiful. They certainly help, but if you reach contentment, you're set. My makeup artist, Melanie Iglesias, couldn't figure out why my skin looks so good. I think it's because I'm happy!
I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.
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