Olivia Wilde Quotes
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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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.
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My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
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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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I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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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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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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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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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.
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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.
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When I was 28, I made this film called 'Drinking Buddies' that I starred in and produced, and we improvised the entire thing, and it was a complete exercise in freedom of expression in making something for only the purpose of making it, not for recognition or money or anything else, and it's still my favorite thing I've ever done.
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I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.
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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.
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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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It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
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In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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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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In a relationship I'm a very loving person, emotional and sensitive.
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I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.