I’ve thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the ’70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
OLIVIA WILDEI 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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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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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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It 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.’
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My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
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I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.
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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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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 got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.
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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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When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it’s sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there’s a backlash. It’s a double standard.
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Inspiration is the key to everything.
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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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It’s so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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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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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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