All actors should experience public failure.
OLIVIA WILDEWhen you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.
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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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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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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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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.
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Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
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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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Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.
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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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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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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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At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.
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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 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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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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