Top 59 Elizabeth Olsen Quotes
#1. And I think in theater, people don't really focus on the media unless there's a huge superstar doing a play or something.
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#2. 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.
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#3. I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.
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#5. Not since I was 10, trying to get Nick Vossler's attention in PE. 'Red Rover, Red Rover, send Nicholas right over!'
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#6. My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.
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#7. I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.
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#8. 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.
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#9. 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.
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#10. The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.
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#11. I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.
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#12. 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.
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#15. I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.
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#16. 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.
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#17. I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.
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#18. 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.
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#19. I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.
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#20. I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.
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#22. 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.
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#23. I feel it is obvious when someone has thought too much about what they're wearing.
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#24. I never wanted anyone to think that I would use my family name to get me anywhere.
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#26. When I'm wearing heels at events, my feet feel like they're sitting in pools of blood.
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#27. Living in L.A., I was embarrassed to say that I wanted to be an actor.
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#28. It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.
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#29. 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.
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#31. Normally I don't feel like having a belly full of pasta.
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#32. 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.
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#33. 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.
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#34. No, I wouldn't want the paparazzi ever following me in my life.
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#35. 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.
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#36. 'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.
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#37. I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.
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#38. 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.
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#39. My friends and I started making films when I was still in kindergarten.
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#40. I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.
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#41. I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.
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#42. I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.
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#43. 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.
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#44. 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.
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#45. 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.
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#47. I think she by this point has learned that Stark's not specifically responsible for her parents' death - that it's more something that has to do with him stopping ... I think there's even a reference to him stopping his selling of weapons because they cause damage.
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#48. I do think in this film [Captain America] we try to tie together that their relationship has gotten stronger - that their friendship has gotten stronger from the last film, sure.
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#49. 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.
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#52. 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.
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#53. I don't know about you, but my girlfriends have been my girlfriends forever, and they're my sisters and my family.
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#54. I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.
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#56. Yeah well I think her relationships with people become really clear, and I think they all make tons of sense in line with Ultron as well.
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#57. 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.
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#58. Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.
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#59. 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.
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