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.’
OLIVIA WILDENow I’m doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.
More Olivia Wilde Quotes
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I love yoga and hiking – I think that’s the perfect combo.
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I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.
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If a woman feels anchored to a man’s plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she’s worried she’s missing.
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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 think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity.
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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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My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
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I was a handful growing up.
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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.
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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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I’ve always been a fan of science fiction.
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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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I trust work, directors – I don’t live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.
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I used to experiment all the time with my hair color.
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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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It’s so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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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.
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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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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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 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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I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.
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I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.
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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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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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