Top 120 Olivia Wilde Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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.”

— Olivia Wilde

2. “Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn’t otherwise be engaged – in essence, not preaching to the choir.”

— Olivia Wilde

3. “I have very high standards for every part of life – my work, my relationships, food, love. I can’t just pretend.”

— Olivia Wilde

4. “People think that young people don’t care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren’t super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.”

— Olivia Wilde

5. “Inspiration is the key to everything.”

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6. “Music plays a big part in my life. I am a big music nerd.”

— Olivia Wilde

7. “If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.”

— Olivia Wilde

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

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9. “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.”

— Olivia Wilde

10. “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.”

— Olivia Wilde

11. “I’ve learned that it’s important to spend some time in a relationship with yourself and not being defined by your partner.”

— Olivia Wilde

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

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13. “I don’t think anyone should apologize for being sexy if it comes from a genuine place, if they’re not being forced into an objectifying situation.”

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

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15. “I had imaginary friends and even they were mean to me.”

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16. “I’m a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.”

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17. “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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18. “I could find David Beckham naked in a cardboard box on my doorstep and I would drop him off at the pound.”

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

— Olivia Wilde

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

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21. “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.”

— Olivia Wilde

22. “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?’”

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

— Olivia Wilde

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

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25. “I admire women who can be feminists and fight for women’s rights, who believe in our powers as individuals and yet not apologize for beauty.”

— Olivia Wilde

26. “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.”

— Olivia Wilde

27. “I know, I’ve never had boobs before!”

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28. “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?”

— Olivia Wilde

29. “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.”

— Olivia Wilde

30. “I’ve always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch ‘Star Trek’ together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.”

— Olivia Wilde

31. “I’ve thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the ’70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.”

— Olivia Wilde

32. “At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.”

— Olivia Wilde

33. “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.”

— Olivia Wilde

34. “Friends, haters, it’s Twitter poll time. What do you think most holds back justice and equality for women? All thoughts welcome!”

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35. “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.”

— Olivia Wilde

36. “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.”

— Olivia Wilde

37. “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.”

— Olivia Wilde

38. “I love yoga and hiking – I think that’s the perfect combo.”

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39. “Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.”

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40. “I shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair.”

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41. “A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.”

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42. “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.”

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43. “The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily – that’s the tragedy.”

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44. “Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything – we’ve distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, ‘Oh, I don’t eat gluten. I don’t eat cheese. I don’t eat this. So I eat cardboard.’”

— Olivia Wilde

45. “Being vegan is not always easy and accessible. But it’s a way of life and makes me as a person feel really good and physically look better.”

— Olivia Wilde

46. “In Alien, Sigourney Weaver’s role was written for a man. In Salt, Angelina Jolie’s role was written for Tom Cruise. These things, when reversed, do prove to be just as exciting and entertaining with women in leading roles.”

— Olivia Wilde

47. “I am a big music nerd.”

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48. “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.”

— Olivia Wilde

49. “I also discovered Pilates when I got pregnant, as people kept saying it’s a great way to stay in shape, and now I can’t get enough – it’s amazing. It helps with aches and pain and, even for non-pregnant people, it’s a great way of getting those lean muscles.”

— Olivia Wilde

50. “I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.”

— Olivia Wilde