Top 100 Olivia Wilde Quotes
#1. I could see myself in a relationship with a girl; Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing.
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#2. I just finished 'Butter' for Weinstein, a comedy with this incredible cast - Hugh Jackman, Olivia Wilde, Alicia Silverstone - all-star cast and it was a fun set to be on. I've gotten really lucky to get all these down-to-earth cast members. 'Butter' is about butter carving in Iowa.
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#3. The last couple of roles I missed out on went to Jennifer Hudson, Jessica Biel and Olivia Wilde.
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#4. I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.
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#5. In a relationship I'm a very loving person, emotional and sensitive.
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#6. 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!
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#7. I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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#8. 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.
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#9. If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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#10. A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.
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#11. You really just have to love the process. I can't tell you the amount of film sets I've been on where people are talking about Oscars in the middle of the production. It happens all the time.
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#12. 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.
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#13. I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.
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#14. I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.'
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#15. I think that you sign a sort of unwritten contract when you become a public figure, when you become an actor, that you're sacrificing a certain amount of privacy and parts of your life change.
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#16. All actors should experience public failure.
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#17. I love the writing process. It's something that I'm interested in personally and something I always do on every movie.
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#18. The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.
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#19. In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.
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#20. 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.'
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#22. My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
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#23. Music plays a big part in my life. I am a big music nerd.
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#24. Power tends to get confused with repression.
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#25. 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.
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#26. Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
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#27. When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.
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#28. I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.
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#29. I could find David Beckham naked in a cardboard box on my doorstep and I would drop him off at the pound.
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#30. I don't think anyone should apologize for being sexy if it comes from a genuine place, if they're not being forced into an objectifying situation.
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#31. I had imaginary friends and even they were mean to me.
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#32. [We] have sex like Kenyan marathon runners.
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#33. It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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#34. People have nervous tics they don't know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, 'Is there something I'm doing?' I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them.
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#35. I'm still a student of fashion, but I like hooking up with the people that really know how to make cool clothes.
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#36. 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.
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#37. 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.
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#38. Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn't sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the table and I was so intimidated by these titans that I was working for.
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#39. 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.
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#40. In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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#41. A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.
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#42. We fall in love with one version of someone and we expect them to stay that way, but they never do.
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#43. I've learned that it's important to spend some time in a relationship with yourself and not being defined by your partner.
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#44. It's really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting men. And it's really hard to get men to be a part of films that are about women in a leading role. I'm really interested in how we can adjust that.
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#45. When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.
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#46. It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.
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#47. Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made.
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#48. At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.
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#49. 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.
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#50. Being vegan is not always easy and accessible. But it's a way of life and makes me as a person feel really good and physically look better.
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#51. I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
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#52. I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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#53. It seems like a dangerous concept to have someone who's just your drinking buddy. Someone you have nothing in common with, if you're sober, is probably not a good, healthy friendship.
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#54. 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?
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#55. I have to say that I approach every project with the same energy. I also think that, since I started producing, I see the process from a different perspective, which affects the way I jump on board immediately.
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#56. My life is about politics, a lot of about music, and a lot about things other than acting. I like traveling the world. But, what makes me want to stay in this business and keep doing this are movies when it's a true labor of love.
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#57. I also discovered Pilates when I got pregnant, as people kept saying it's a great way to stay in shape, and now I can't get enough - it's amazing. It helps with aches and pain and, even for non-pregnant people, it's a great way of getting those lean muscles.
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#58. If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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#59. So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.
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#60. I tend to go with a daytime look, pretty natural, but I always fill in my eyebrows - I hate if I leave the gym and my eyebrows aren't done; I'm just very uncomfortable with myself.
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#61. It's great to know you've earned your place and to know that you are right for the role because my biggest fear is being offered something and showing up on set and doing one day and everyone going, "Oh geez, oh no, this isn't, she isn't.." and feeling that way myself.
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#62. Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.
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#63. When you're in a romantic relationship, of course, there is a lot more compromise and you have to be a lot more unselfish.
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#64. In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.
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#65. I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.
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#66. I think my confidence has developed over the years, in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.
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#67. If I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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#68. I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity.
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#69. Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'
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#70. Not eating meat really keeps me trim ... meat, and what's usually served with it, is a big calorie packer.
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#71. I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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#72. 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.
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#74. I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.
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#75. 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.
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#76. I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.
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#77. I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.
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#78. 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.
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#79. I used to experiment all the time with my hair color.
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#80. 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.
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#81. As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.
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#82. I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.
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#83. 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.
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#84. I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.
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#85. I admire women who can be feminists and fight for women's rights, who believe in our powers as individuals and yet not apologize for beauty.
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#86. Looking natural takes so long! If you look at the runways, the look for models is predominantly natural, isn't it?
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#88. Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.
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#89. I shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair.
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#90. Seeing the energy of 'SNL' made me want to be a part of it. If that was a job, I thought, that was the job I wanted. That was my plan. Comedy.
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#91. My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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#92. I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.
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#93. I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.
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#94. We need to remind ourselves of the beauty of human connection and of nature and pull ourselves out of devices for a moment and appreciate what it is just to be human beings.
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#95. Not everything has to be a couples' event.
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#96. I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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#98. 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.
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#99. Writers get to know me very well. It always serves me in the end because I feel I have a deeper understanding of the character and sometimes they really like my ideas and they use them.
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#100. I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.
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