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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I’d be a really happy person.

Olivia Wilde

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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Comedy Energy Job Myself Planning Thinking
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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Age Friendship Journal Lifestyle Myself Parents People Young
This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it’s worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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Business Investment Movie Number Worth
I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity.
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Insecure Myself Relationship Ruin Thinking
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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Life Love Pretend Relationship Standard Yourself
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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Abandonment Appearance Fill Make Up Myself Nature
My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
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Marriage Myself Optimistic Parents
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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Actor Aspiration Burn Director Herself
The thing that’s wonderful about social media is that we are able to give a voice to the voiceless and to help educate each other. I benefit from it as much as I provide those lessons.
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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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Age Hollywood Human Movie Myself Work
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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Ban Feeling Myself Scale World
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.
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Afraid Dumb Old People Play Role Truth Yourself
Power tends to get confused with repression.
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Confusion Power Repression
It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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Different Myself People See Wrong
I am a big music nerd.
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Music Myself Nerd
From 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.
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Actor Age Career Decision Diversity Early Love Myself
Now I’m doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.
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Festival Movie Myself Scripture Writing
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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Adopt Brother Friendship Greatness Myself
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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But even 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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End Feeling Greatness Journey Myself Wild
You really just have to love the process. I can’t tell you the amount of film sets I’ve been on where people are talking about Oscars in the middle of the production. It happens all the time.
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As 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.
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Feeling Old Road Walk Yourself
At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.
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Change Internet Myself Name Point Privacy
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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Dry Feeling Greatness Hight Myself
All actors should experience public failure.
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Experience Failure Public
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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Depression Modeling Personality Word
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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Audience Break Document Effect Engagement Essence Powerful

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