I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.
OLIVIA WILDEI used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.
OLIVIA WILDEI’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.
OLIVIA WILDEFrom 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.
OLIVIA WILDEThere 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.
OLIVIA WILDEI 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.
OLIVIA WILDEI enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
OLIVIA WILDEI 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.
OLIVIA WILDEAll actors should experience public failure.
OLIVIA WILDEYou’re going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
OLIVIA WILDENow I’m doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.
OLIVIA WILDEIt was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, ‘If I don’t succeed, I’ll go back to school and study.’
OLIVIA WILDEWhen you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.
OLIVIA WILDEAs 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.
OLIVIA WILDEIn 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.
OLIVIA WILDEAt the end of your twenties, you realize you are inherently flawed, and that’s great, and that’s what makes you dynamic.
OLIVIA WILDEPeople 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.
OLIVIA WILDE