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Olivia Wilde

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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Actor Crazy Energy Focus Happiness Work Yourself
My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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Country Father Myself
I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I’d like to write a movie about it.
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Divorce Funny Movie Myself Thinking Young
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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Alone Definition Health Myself Person Thinking Time
All actors should experience public failure.
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Experience Failure Public
I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.
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Feeling Morning Myself Time
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
Inspiration is the key to everything.
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Inspirational Key One Liner
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
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
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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Compassionate Experience Hold Ourselves People Weakness
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
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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Clothes Fashion Myself People Sex
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
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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Education heavy Inspirational Myself Progression School
I love yoga and hiking – I think that’s the perfect combo.
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Exercise Love Myself Yoga
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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Attention Draw Make Myself Up
My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
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Marriage Myself Optimistic Parents
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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Doctor Myself Pain Talk
It’s so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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Evening Important Independence Yourself
When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn’t what I was picked for at first, for films and TV.
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Comedy Love Myself Theatre
I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.
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Cook Myself Play School Show
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
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
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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Creation Director Goodness Live Love Myself Prison Trust Universe Work
You’re going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
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Change Growth Myself Old Relationship
I’ve always been a fan of science fiction.
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Fans Fiction Myself Science

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