Olivia Wilde Quotes
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I read so many things because a colleague or a friend will post something, and I'll be able to learn a tremendous amount only because they drew attention to it. So I try to do that for others, and that's the great thing about social media. It's not always a narcissistic cesspool or waste of time.
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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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At the end of your twenties, you realize you are inherently flawed, and that's great, and that's what makes you dynamic.
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Power tends to get confused with repression.
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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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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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My parents were journalists and friends with writers, artists, and just a really interesting assortment of people, so I was exposed to all lifestyles from a young age.
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All actors should experience public failure.
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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.
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I shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair.
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At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.
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I love eye makeup. I really like doing a cat eye, playing with liquid liners and different colors of liners, like emerald and deep blues, combining them with black.
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Inspiration is the key to everything.
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It's not actually OK to just be apathetic about anything.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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I was a handful growing up.
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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.
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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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Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.