Olivia Wilde's Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.

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.

I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.

In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

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.

It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually left 'Cowboys & Aliens' and went straight into 'The Change-Up.' It was kind of a funny change of pace.

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.

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.

So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

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.

When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.

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.

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

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.

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

All actors should experience public failure.

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

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.

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

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

I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.

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

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

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

I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.

I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.

I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.

I was a handful growing up.

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

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.'

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

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

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

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

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