My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
OLIVIA WILDEMy 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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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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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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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 Hollywood.
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I’ve always been a fan of science fiction.
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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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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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Many casting directors won’t hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick’s headshot under the table so she doesn’t get the part.
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You realize when you’re pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
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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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I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.
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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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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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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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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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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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Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
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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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It’s so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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There are so many young women in film school right now, and it’s just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women.
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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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When I have really blonde hair, I usually go for a more natural look, wearing way less makeup.
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Weakness is something we don’t like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.
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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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I’m a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
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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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