People 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 WILDEIf a woman feels anchored to a man’s plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she’s worried she’s missing.
More Olivia Wilde Quotes
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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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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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I was a tomboy and I didn’t have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.
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I am a big music nerd.
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Now I’m doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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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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Power tends to get confused with repression.
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Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
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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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When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.
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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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Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it’s great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.
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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’ve always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch ‘Star Trek’ together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.
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