Top 100 Olsen's Quotes
#1. From Olsen's Nation: "Through the power of our diplomacy, a world that was once divided about how to deal with Iran's nuclear program now stands as one. Standing as one, the world now sincerely regrets Iran's nuclear program." - President Bodvar Olsen, fifth State of the Union address
Randy Quarles
#2. 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.
Elizabeth Olsen
#3. The way I see it, you have to take every chance you get because there may not be another one. You have to learn from your mistakes because nobody's perfect. You have to laugh, love & live every day as if it's your last.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#4. I just want to scream: "I'm being honest, I swear!" Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore.
Angel Olsen
#5. I think we have the same goals in mind. We are not planning on just all of a sudden taking a film and separating. Hopefully one day she can direct me in something, or I will direct her. Or we'll produce a movie under our company's name.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#6. Writer's block comes from one's wanting only to write good stuff. Well, the good stuff and the bad stuff are all part of the stuff. No good stuff without bad stuff.
Eric Olsen
#7. I learned how to be more theatrical and have more fun, and to take a song and sing it over and over again in different ways, and make it different each time. I'm not just singing the song - it's this thing that's affecting me.
Angel Olsen
#8. It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.
Angel Olsen
#9. A twin knows exactly when the other one is spitting up, but that's all they know about anything.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#10. At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.
Eric Christian Olsen
#11. I feel like when I carry a bigger bag, it looks like it's a huge bag because I'm really tiny. But I do think it's important to have the space that you need, because we throw everything in our bags at all times. I think every woman does.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#12. Perseverance isn't just the willingness to work hard. It's that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself.
Merlin Olsen
#13. I love getting amazing jackets, because you can wear your pajamas underneath and everyone's like, 'Oh, fabulous jacket,' and I'm like, 'You should see what's underneath!'
Mary-Kate Olsen
#14. Australia is so cool that it's hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful; so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#15. 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.
Elizabeth Olsen
#16. When he turned round with the cup to his mouth, nostrils titillated by the aroma of a sun that had once shone on a Colombian coffee farmer's fields, Klavs Jeppensen's chair was empty.
Jussi Adler-Olsen
#17. Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.
Merlin Olsen
#18. Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.
Ashley Olsen
#19. Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#20. When I was in the gunner's bubble of a B25 bomber, taking off from an aircraft carrier 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, I remember saying to myself how amazing it was to get the chance to do that.
Eric Christian Olsen
#21. I have had days stare back at me as if to say, let's see who will darken first.
William Olsen
#22. According to Charles Olsen, the best poetry is a kind of schizophrenia. The poem does not "express" the poet's thoughts or feelings. It is "a transfer of energy between the poet and the reader".
Chris Kraus
#23. She's always there for me when I need her; She's my best friend; she's just my everything.
Ashley Olsen
#24. about what you found today." Olsen stopped pouring the warm water into a mug. "What I found today?" Felix carefully studied the man's eyes. They failed to meet his own, and answered his question immediately. Yes, Albert Olsen
Christopher Cartwright
#25. Education isn't something your professors make for you. It's something you make for yourself.
Lance Olsen
#26. I still read scripts, and if something great comes along, that's great ... but this is my day job. The Row is where I go every day.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#27. Just as we have had great working lives, we have also had good personal lives. For instance, we have made school our number one priority. We have been in school our entire lives with kids our own age. We guess that's pretty regular.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#28. 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.
Elizabeth Olsen
#29. It's unbelievable how many things I've learned from Merlin Olsen.
Jack Youngblood
#31. Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.
Elizabeth Olsen
#32. 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.
Elizabeth Olsen
#33. If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#34. These women, these Shark Tank Mompreneurs are so passionate about what they created and what they are doing, and that just shines through. That's a major reason why they nailed their audition.
Rachel A. Olsen
#35. I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I'm being followed. You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds.
Ashley Olsen
#36. I'm friends with Carla Olsen and she's doing a lot of producing these days. She's getting quite a little collection of records that she's produced. She's real busy.
Kathy Valentine
#38. I think it's really important to be able to talk when something's wrong. I learned at a really young age that if you don't talk about it, it can drive you insane.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#39. I would love to be able to swim in the ocean in Malibu. But that is asking for a bikini shot. That's inviting something that I don't want to happen. I don't need to be on a 'Who's Skinny, Who's Fat, Who's Looking Healthy, Who's Not Eating?' list.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#40. I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.
Angel Olsen
#41. I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.
Elizabeth Olsen
#42. One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
Merlin Olsen
#43. If you're having a bad hair day or a bad boy day, he'll whip up one of his yummy mango smoothies for you, sit you down, and say, "Little one, remember what's really important in life: a family that loves you, good friends, and not putting too much garlic in the pesto."
- Chloe Carlson
Nancy Butcher
#44. 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.
Elizabeth Olsen
#45. 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.
Elizabeth Olsen
#46. In the music industry, it's pretty easy to make an album just because you want to keep going, like, 'This is the formula.' But the formula is your life. You have to live your life and you have to live it well-that's the formula.
Angel Olsen
#47. 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.
Elizabeth Olsen
#48. I live a very normal life. I have friends, and I've always gone to school. The part that's not normal is that I've been working since I was 9 months old, but at the same time, it's completely normal to me.
Ashley Olsen
#49. There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.
Angel Olsen
#50. Your eyes. They're gorgeous," I said, unable to tear my gaze away. "That's because they're looking at you," he intoned.
Julie Olsen
#51. 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.
Elizabeth Olsen
#52. Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.
Merlin Olsen
#53. Well that's what I generally do with books - I read them.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#54. That's why I should drive the bulldozer," Desi said. "Brains, beauty, and pizza.
Nora Olsen
#55. I get extra time to take the test because of my ADD. Everybody's brains works differently and I just need longer for things to register.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#57. We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for kids, so that's why we decided to do them.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#58. I'd tell my mother to, you know, go you-know-what herself and I would go help those children. They're in an orphanage and they've got family! That's sickening. What does John do? Nothing. His kids are in an orphanage... and he does nothing.
~ Michelle Jarvis
Gregg Olsen
#60. It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.
Angel Olsen
#61. You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal to you.
Angel Olsen
#62. Not since I was 10, trying to get Nick Vossler's attention in PE. 'Red Rover, Red Rover, send Nicholas right over!'
Elizabeth Olsen
#63. If you can't be psyched about your own thoughts, then how are you supposed to have a meaningful interaction with anyone?
Angel Olsen
#64. Art is not so much talent as character ... it's what you are, the qualities of the person.
John Olsen
#65. Her daughter's comment amused Emily. 'I didn't know stalking could be a group activity
Gregg Olsen
#66. I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.
Elizabeth Olsen
#67. She was a bitch,' Carl suddenly heard somebody say in the background, and that apparently refreshed everyone's memory.
yes, thought Carl with satisfaction. It's the good stable arseholes like us who are remembered best.
Jussi Adler-Olsen
#68. I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.
Elizabeth Olsen
#69. I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a room with a guitar.
Angel Olsen
#70. When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other.
Troian Bellisario
#71. Smoking is extremely hazardous to you and those around you it said on the label. He glanced around. The few termites that might thrive down here could probably handle it.
Jussi Adler-Olsen
#72. Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really well. And this is much better than setting fires, so keep it up.' That made me a writer.
Chuck Palahniuk
#73. 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.
Elizabeth Olsen
#74. And I think in theater, people don't really focus on the media unless there's a huge superstar doing a play or something.
Elizabeth Olsen
#75. I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.
Angel Olsen
#76. OUT OF AN INFINITE LOVE, you, O Lord, have made me an heir of your kingdom and joint heir with Christ. O Good Jesus, to whom else shall I go? You have the words of eternal life. I hope, and I believe in you. Lord keep me from despair. Amen. O
Derek A. Olsen
#77. Having people in different optimal environments increases the chances of survival of the human race as a whole. It is nature's way to preserve her species.
Marti Olsen Laney
#78. She was only fifteen! What is the matter with these kids today? Can't they wait to have sex until they get their driver's license and can go somewhere?
Gregg Olsen
#79. When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want.
Angel Olsen
#80. I run around my house naked with heels all the time. It's so funny.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#81. When I was a teenager in the late 30's and early 40's, electronics wasn't a word. You were interested in radio if you were interested in electronics.
Ken Olsen
#82. It's weird to be called a celebrity or talk about it. I don't talk about being a celebrity in my business meetings. I don't talk about it with my friends. It's not a part of my life. It's a media perception of who I am.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#83. According to Life & Style, Lance Armstrong was seen canoodling with fitness model Kim Strother, and the night before, he was with Ashley Olsen. He's going from bar to bar picking up women - how does he get them home? Does he put them on the handlebars, or does he have a banana seat?
Chelsea Handler
#84. The clothes are so cute. On little kids .. it's so cute with accessories and little details.
Ashley Olsen
#85. Assad whistled a few notes of one of his native country's melancholic songs. It sounded as though he was whistling backwards
Jussi Adler-Olsen
#86. It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.
Elizabeth Olsen
#87. That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks ...
Tillie Olsen
#88. The family that raised me are awesome people and they are my mother and my father and my brother and my sister. I've never viewed them as these "strangers" that took over. It's never been this crazy, dramatic, Lifetime-movie situation. It's been chill.
Angel Olsen
#89. Riley Carlson: So I guess I know what you wanted to tell me. I mean, you made it pretty clear that you don't want to go out with an average girl.
Marc Hudson: That's right, I don't. I want to go out with YOU. There's nothing average about you, Riley.
Megan Stine
#90. Tillie Olsen. James Joyce. Robert Stone. I must have read Updike's Rabbit, Run five times and Bellow's Herzog
Pamela Paul
#91. 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.
Elizabeth Olsen
#92. Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones.
Tillie Olsen
#94. For the same reason people watch action movies or game shows, I guess. Mindless entertainment. Not everything has to be Shakespeare, you know. Or Oscar Wilde. It's fun. Like... gilded porn.
Summer Olsen
#95. 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.
Elizabeth Olsen
#96. Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What's not to love!
Mary-Kate Olsen
#97. I was adopted legally around age three, but it's not like this thing I think about when I wake up every day. I was adopted by my foster parents, so I was comfortable with them. I wasn't in this alien place.
Angel Olsen
#98. 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.
Elizabeth Olsen
#99. 'Sweet Dreams' is such a dark-sounding song, but it's about not taking anything for granted; share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.
Angel Olsen
#100. The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.
Elizabeth Olsen
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