Quotes from Olivia Wilde


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


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.


Not everything has to be a couples' event.


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


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


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


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.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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.


I tend to go with a daytime look, pretty natural, but I always fill in my eyebrows - I hate if I leave the gym and my eyebrows aren't done; I'm just very uncomfortable with myself.


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.


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.


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