Top 35 Mary-Kate Olsen Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I find it’s better to focus on what’s in front of you and to keep putting one foot in front of the other.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

2. “I think the hardest part to get to is that point of asking for help or reaching out to other people and being honest with yourself.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

3. “I am the cute one! She’s just my sister.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

4. “I think everything happens for a reason, so there is no such thing as fail.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

5. “I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

6. “I learned how to play the drums. When we were in pre-production, when we were still in LA, I had a couple of drum lessons and then some in Toronto. I got the one beat down and that was it.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

7. “A twin knows exactly when the other one is spitting up, but that’s all they know about anything.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

8. “When we were growing up, our mother taught us never to have your belly button exposed.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

9. “I wear weird things sometimes. I like to drink coffee. Neither of those things have anything to do with who I am.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

10. “We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

11. “Now that im older i’m more aware of things that make me feel complete as a person. I’m trying to concentrate on those things as opposed to things that make feel empty.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

12. “I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

13. “Australia is so cool that it’s hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful; so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

14. “I feel like when I carry a bigger bag it looks like it’s a huge bag because I’m really tiny. But I do think it’s important to have the space that you need, because we throw everything in our bags at all times. I think every woman does.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

15. “Our parents got to be kids. Now it’s our turn.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

16. “When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

17. “I think we have the same goals in mind. We are not planning on just all of a sudden taking a film and separating. Hopefully one day she can direct me in something, or I will direct her. Or we’ll produce a movie under our company’s name.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

18. “We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

19. “I look at old photos of me, and I don’t feel connected to them at all.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

20. “I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I’d love to open up a restaurant or cafe.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

21. “I would love to be able to swim in the ocean in Malibu. But that is asking for a bikini shot. That’s inviting something that I don’t want to happen. I don’t need to be on a ‘Who’s Skinny, Who’s Fat, Who’s Looking Healthy, Who’s Not Eating?’ list.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

22. “It’s weird to be called a celebrity or talk about it. I don’t talk about being a celebrity in my business meetings. I don’t talk about it with my friends. It’s not a part of my life. It’s a media perception of who I am.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

23. “I get extra time to take the test because of my ADD. Everybody’s brains works differently and I just need longer for things to register.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

24. “Well that’s what I generally do with books – I read them.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

25. “Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What’s not to love!”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

26. “We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren’t on an official team or anything, but we’d definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

27. “How can you be organized when you’re in Times Square?”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

28. “Any time that we have time to take off, we love being home.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

29. “The best part was the food. There are some great Italian restaurants we go to whenever we are in Toronto, so the eating was a definite highlight.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

30. “We’ve played producers almost our entire lives in everything else we’ve created. But when working on a feature and even dealing with something like Warner Bros. or another production company, or other details that you can worry about – we definitely learned a lot.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

31. “I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

32. “If they’re going to write a story they’re going to write the story whether it’s true or not.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

33. “We get along really well, but TV and film aren’t reality. We’re best friends, but we do have our fights!”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

34. “I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don’t know?”

— Mary-Kate Olsen

35. “I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing.”

— Mary-Kate Olsen