Olivia Wilde Quotes

Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.

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.

I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.

We fall in love with one version of someone and we expect them to stay that way, but they never do.

In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.

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.

Enjoy the pregnancy, not racing ahead and relishing the moment. I think people see pregnancy as something to get over with, but every stage of becoming a mother is really special.

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?

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.

We need to remind ourselves of the beauty of human connection and of nature and pull ourselves out of devices for a moment and appreciate what it is just to be human beings.

In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.

But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.

Anything that becomes an obstacle in life is only an opportunity to learn and it's the same in any profession I think.

Inspiration is the key to everything.

I love the eyebrow pencils. I do my brows every day. I won't leave my house without my brows! My beauty disaster from childhood was trying to look like Kate Moss and plucking all my brows off.

Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.

I got an internship with the casting director of The Girl Next Door. I would hold the clipboard and help them in their casting sessions and get them lunch.

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.

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.

I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.

I was a handful growing up.

A real feminist doesn't apologize for her beauty. You can be a sexy, beautiful woman and be the smartest person in the room.

The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.

Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.

Beyond my desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant-based diet, and I feel about a thousand times more energetic.

In the next election, can we vote to ban those ribbon things that kind of keep clothing on hangers but really just hang out of your armpits?

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

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.

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

It seems like a dangerous concept to have someone who's just your drinking buddy. Someone you have nothing in common with, if you're sober, is probably not a good, healthy friendship.

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.

I loved being pregnant. I felt unapologetically curvy, sexy, and intensely feminine. After giving birth I joined the ranks of millions of new mothers when I moaned, 'Why do I still look pregnant?'

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.'

So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.

I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity.

Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.

I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.

When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.

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.

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.

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.

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.

As a woman who works in a male-dominated business - Hollywood, definitely, being one of them - I instinctually knew what that is like. You have to be strong and take care of yourself.

My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.

My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.

Let's redefine scandal. Scandal is not who's dating who. Scandal is 1.2 million people living in tents in Haiti.

Do some yoga. I never feel more beautiful than after I've really spent some time breathing.

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.