Olivia Wilde
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.Collection: Marriage
I was a handful growing up.Collection: Teen
I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.Collection: Food
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.Collection: Romantic
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.'Collection: Sad
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.Collection: Relationship
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.Collection: Fear
I've always been a fan of science fiction.Collection: Science
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?Collection: Smile
You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.Collection: Medical
There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women.Collection: Finance
I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.Collection: Graduation
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.Collection: Alone
It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.Collection: Independence
I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity.
Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
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.
I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.
If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.
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.
I used to experiment all the time with my hair color.
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.
Mick Jagger has been an idol of mine since I was 10 years old. Through his music, he has taught me so much about rock n' roll, but also about the blues and about the experience of live music, going to several Rolling Stones shows, growing up.
I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.
I'm proud to have played characters who've inspired people to live out loud, and I'm lucky to have reached an audience that's been incredibly enthusiastic and supportive.
Inspiration is the key to everything.
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.
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.'
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.
Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.
Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.
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.
I shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair.
But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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.
Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.
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.
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.
When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.
From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
If I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.
My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.