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.
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.’
More Olivia Wilde Quotes
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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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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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You realize when you’re pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.
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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 shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair.
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I’m now convinced that I’m a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I’m like, ‘Well, that’s your spleen.’
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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 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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I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.
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I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.
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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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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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I used to experiment all the time with my hair color.
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I 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.
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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 you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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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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At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.
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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. 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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I was a handful growing up.
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I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I’d like to write a movie about it.
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I’m proud to have played characters who’ve inspired people to live out loud, and I’m lucky to have reached an audience that’s been incredibly enthusiastic and supportive.
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I’ve always been a fan of science fiction.
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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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