Top 120 Olivia Wilde Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors – you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.”

— Olivia Wilde

52. “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.”

— Olivia Wilde

53. “I guess for my skin, I clean it and moisturize and try to drink water. How boring is this though? I’m convinced that it comes from within. If you’re happy and healthy, it shows.”

— Olivia Wilde

54. “A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.”

— Olivia Wilde

55. “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.’”

— Olivia Wilde

56. “Seeing the energy of ‘SNL’ made me want to be a part of it. If that was a job, I thought, that was the job I wanted. That was my plan. Comedy.”

— Olivia Wilde

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

— Olivia Wilde

58. “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.”

— Olivia Wilde

59. “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.”

— Olivia Wilde

60. “If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I’d be a really happy person.”

— Olivia Wilde

61. “What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.”

— Olivia Wilde

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

— Olivia Wilde

63. “I used to experiment all the time with my hair color.”

— Olivia Wilde

64. “I’m still a student of fashion, but I like hooking up with the people that really know how to make cool clothes.”

— Olivia Wilde

65. “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.”

— Olivia Wilde

66. “It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, ‘If I don’t succeed, I’ll go back to school and study.’”

— Olivia Wilde

67. “In a relationship I’m a very loving person, emotional and sensitive.”

— Olivia Wilde

68. “Do some yoga. I never feel more beautiful than after I’ve really spent some time breathing.”

— Olivia Wilde

69. “I love the writing process. It’s something that I’m interested in personally and something I always do on every movie.”

— Olivia Wilde

70. “I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.”

— Olivia Wilde

71. “I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.”

— Olivia Wilde

72. “It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There’s no personality involved.”

— Olivia Wilde

73. “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.”

— Olivia Wilde

74. “Cleanses and products don’t make you look more beautiful. They certainly help, but if you reach contentment, you’re set. My makeup artist, Melanie Iglesias, couldn’t figure out why my skin looks so good. I think it’s because I’m happy!”

— Olivia Wilde

75. “I’m pretty low-key; you’ll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.”

— Olivia Wilde

76. “I was much more into romance as a teenager and it’s been a kind of new discovery for me to learn about sci-fi adventure. I think it’s a really interesting genre and it’s all about imagination. It’s boundless what you can do in these stories.”

— Olivia Wilde

77. “Let’s redefine scandal. Scandal is not who’s dating who. Scandal is 1.2 million people living in tents in Haiti.”

— Olivia Wilde

78. “I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I’d like to write a movie about it.”

— Olivia Wilde

79. “I can never describe myself as a movie star. I don’t know when that happens but it’s certainly not me.”

— Olivia Wilde

80. “I was a handful growing up.”

— Olivia Wilde

81. “I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression.”

— Olivia Wilde

82. “Now I’m doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.”

— Olivia Wilde

83. “If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.”

— Olivia Wilde

84. “I think that you sign a sort of unwritten contract when you become a public figure, when you become an actor, that you’re sacrificing a certain amount of privacy and parts of your life change.”

— Olivia Wilde

85. “Writers get to know me very well. It always serves me in the end because I feel I have a deeper understanding of the character and sometimes they really like my ideas and they use them.”

— Olivia Wilde

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

— Olivia Wilde

87. “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 Hollyweird.”

— Olivia Wilde

88. “It’s so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.”

— Olivia Wilde

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

— Olivia Wilde

90. “It’s really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting men. And it’s really hard to get men to be a part of films that are about women in a leading role. I’m really interested in how we can adjust that.”

— Olivia Wilde

91. “Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made.”

— Olivia Wilde

92. “I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. ‘Tron’ was such a departure for me.”

— Olivia Wilde

93. “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?”

— Olivia Wilde

94. “I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn’t wait to get back to Ardmore.”

— Olivia Wilde

95. “It’s boring to play the girl role!”

— Olivia Wilde

96. “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.”

— Olivia Wilde

97. “I have a lot of friends who I really feel like I can kick back with and let all pretense go and be very comfortable with.”

— Olivia Wilde

98. “People have nervous tics they don’t know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, ‘Is there something I’m doing?’ I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them.”

— Olivia Wilde

99. “I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.”

— Olivia Wilde

100. “Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn’t sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the table and I was so intimidated by these titans that I was working for.”

— Olivia Wilde