Elizabeth Olsen
I get way too much happiness from good food.Collection: Happiness
I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.Collection: Romantic
I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.Collection: Teacher
I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.Collection: Famous
What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.Collection: Learning
I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.
I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.
My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.
No, I wouldn't want the paparazzi ever following me in my life.
I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.
I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.
I like men-inspired outfits.
The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.
You want everyone to succeed in your family.
If you don't like something, talk about something else that's great and maybe someone else will discover it and think it's great too.
I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.
But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.
I feel it is obvious when someone has thought too much about what they're wearing.
And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character.
I'm the curvy one of the family.
I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.
When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.
'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.
Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.
I really actually enjoy auditioning.
And I've been taking acting classes since I was 7.
And I think in theater, people don't really focus on the media unless there's a huge superstar doing a play or something.
I think a lot of films do themselves a disfavor by putting in way too much information, and everyone knows what's gonna happen next, and no one can actually discover things as they go.
Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.
I never wanted anyone to think that I would use my family name to get me anywhere.
I've always loved being a student.
I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.
Normally I don't feel like having a belly full of pasta.
I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it.
I've only done one shoot where it's modeling clothes, not like me in my environment. And the stylist, literally, I had her stand behind the photographer and do poses.
I don't know about you, but my girlfriends have been my girlfriends forever, and they're my sisters and my family.
I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.
I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.
My friends and I started making films when I was still in kindergarten.
Everyone is always surprised by how old I am. They think I'm older, but it's always been that way. I'm the youngest of four - maybe you grow up quicker because you just watch the big people.
Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.
It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.
I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.
I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.
I'm a very social person and I love being out in the world, and the feeling of not having that is the scariest thing to me.Collection: Communication
People don’t need careers. People should just exist.Collection: Careers
My favorite thing about acting is you have to learn how to work with people that you probably would never try to. Some people just aren't supposed to be in a room together, and you have to be in a room with a group of people who might not all get along and you have to figure out how to come together for one thing. That collaboration is special, and people don't get to exercise that. I think that's why people become stubborn, and I think that's why people become uninspired to change. In this job you have to.Collection: Exercise
One time my mom tried to send me to my room for a time-out when I was 5 or 6, and I was like, "Fine! I like my room! All my imagination and toys are in my room!" I will never forget that. And she will never forget that.Collection: Mom
I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.Collection: Reading
I think every time you start a job, it's good to remember that everyone's kind of in the same boat, no one knows what they're doing. Everyone thinks that they don't know what they're doing.Collection: Thinking