Top 50 Elizabeth Olsen Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I get way too much happiness from good food.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

2. “I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can’t worry about.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

3. “People don’t need careers. People should just exist.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

4. “Yes, I don’t read books for entertainment.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

5. “I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

6. “If you can’t really have a conversation with someone candidly about it it’s something that you’ll always have something to learn from when it comes to taking a literature class.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

7. “Normally I don’t feel like having a belly full of pasta.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

8. “If you don’t like something, talk about something else that’s great and maybe someone else will discover it and think it’s great too.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

9. “I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

10. “I never wanted anyone to think that I would use my family name to get me anywhere.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

11. “What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you’re going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

12. “I’ve always had a complex about being taken seriously.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

13. “I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

14. “The tabloids create their own stories about people’s lives that don’t exist.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

15. “I feel it is obvious when someone has thought too much about what they’re wearing.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

16. “I would love to date a chef. I’d probably get really fat, but I don’t care.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

17. “When I was 13, I told my parents I didn’t believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women’s freedoms.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

18. “When I’m wearing heels at events, my feet feel like they’re sitting in pools of blood.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

19. “And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

20. “Not since I was 10, trying to get Nick Vossler’s attention in PE. ‘Red Rover, Red Rover, send Nicholas right over!’”

— Elizabeth Olsen

21. “I don’t know about you, but my girlfriends have been my girlfriends forever, and they’re my sisters and my family.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

22. “When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, ‘Well, maybe I’ll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.’ Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

23. “I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that’s when I started to learn about the history of theater.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

24. “I would mimic what I saw in Grease and Guys and Dolls in front of my mom’s mirror and I would practice voices and songs. When you put me alone in a room, that’s what I would do.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

25. “Everyone is always surprised by how old I am. They think I’m older, but it’s always been that way. I’m the youngest of four – maybe you grow up quicker because you just watch the big people.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

26. “I’m a very social person and I love being out in the world, and the feeling of not having that is the scariest thing to me.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

27. “I just think my family is so normal, but no one wants to accept that. I find my family to be normal because there’s an understanding of what every job entails. And it is a job. It’s not this fantasy that Hollywood and movies are all glitter and stardust.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

28. “One time my mom tried to send me to my room for a time-out when I was 5 or 6, and I was like, “Fine! I like my room! All my imagination and toys are in my room!” I will never forget that. And she will never forget that.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

29. “But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn’t a script, I’ll read something from that.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

30. “I’m the curvy one of the family.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

31. “I’ve never read a young adult novel, though. I’m sure I would love it, but I’ve never read one.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

32. “I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It’s because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

33. “I’m terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

34. “My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

35. “No, I wouldn’t want the paparazzi ever following me in my life.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

36. “I’ve only done one shoot where it’s modeling clothes, not like me in my environment. And the stylist, literally, I had her stand behind the photographer and do poses.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

37. “You want everyone to succeed in your family.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

38. “Well, I’d love to work with Kate Winslet – she’s amazing.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

39. “I find acting conservatories really important. I’ve gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

40. “Yeah well I think her relationships with people become really clear, and I think they all make tons of sense in line with Ultron as well.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

41. “I’m kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don’t because I’m always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I’m reading.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

42. “I like men-inspired outfits.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

43. “I think a lot of films do themselves a disfavor by putting in way too much information, and everyone knows what’s gonna happen next, and no one can actually discover things as they go.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

44. “I really actually enjoy auditioning.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

45. “I always went to see independent films, they’re the movies I’m usually most excited to see.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

46. “My friends and I started making films when I was still in kindergarten.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

47. “It’s interesting to watch myself with an audience; I’m trying hard to learn from it.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

48. “I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it’s always happening.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

49. “Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle – so you’re a tool.”

— Elizabeth Olsen

50. “And I think in theater, people don’t really focus on the media unless there’s a huge superstar doing a play or something.”

— Elizabeth Olsen