Olivia Wilde
I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.
Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.
If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.
When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn't what I was picked for at first, for films and TV.
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.
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.
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!
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.
When I have really blonde hair, I usually go for a more natural look, wearing way less makeup.
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.
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.Collection: Bad Ass
We fall in love with one version of someone and we expect them to stay that way, but they never do.Collection: Falling In Love
In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.Collection: Hate
When you're in a romantic relationship, of course, there is a lot more compromise and you have to be a lot more unselfish.Collection: Compromise
I admire women who can be feminists and fight for women's rights, who believe in our powers as individuals and yet not apologize for beauty.Collection: Believe
A real feminist doesn't apologize for her beauty. You can be a sexy, beautiful woman and be the smartest person in the room.Collection: Beautiful
Anything that becomes an obstacle in life is only an opportunity to learn and it's the same in any profession I think.Collection: Opportunity
Let's redefine scandal. Scandal is not who's dating who. Scandal is 1.2 million people living in tents in Haiti.Collection: People
The difference between romantic love and friendship love is that romantic love involves a lot of compromise. It is a very giving type of love. With friendship, you can be a little bit more autonomous. You are not expected to compromise, in the same way. Maybe that's why friendships tend to last longer.Collection: Love Is
We have sex like Kenyan marathon runners.Collection: Sex
I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.Collection: Thinking
We need to remind ourselves of the beauty of human connection and of nature and pull ourselves out of devices for a moment and appreciate what it is just to be human beings.Collection: Appreciate
The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood is the selflessness that it introduces you to, and I think that's really freeing... I think it allows you to put yourself in other people's shoes...the empathy that it slugs you with, being a mother. And I think it makes you a better storyteller.Collection: Mother
Enjoy the pregnancy, not racing ahead and relishing the moment. I think people see pregnancy as something to get over with, but every stage of becoming a mother is really special.Collection: Mother
I'd like to refocus everyone's attention away from the Kardashians and onto Doctors Without Borders or aid workers. Let's redefine scandal. Scandal is not who so-and-so is dating; scandal is the fact that 1.2 million people are still living in tents in Haiti, and cholera is rampant because Nepalese U.N. soldiers dumped s- from their Porta-Potties into the river. That's a f-ing scandal. If the average 15-year-old was hearing about that instead of so-and-so's plastic surgery or cheating in Hollywood, I'd feel better about our future.Collection: Cheating
The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.Collection: Priorities
Trying to find this industry's tendency to celebrate the physical is a waste of time. So I'm happy to play the game. But I am also thirsty for input. I'm not a dunce whose only skill is knowing how to take a photograph, you know? And at the end of the day, I think it makes me slightly less replaceable.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Lots Of Friends
It's great to know you've earned your place and to know that you are right for the role because my biggest fear is being offered something and showing up on set and doing one day and everyone going, "Oh geez, oh no, this isn't, she isn't.." and feeling that way myself.Collection: Feelings
Music plays a big part in my life. I am a big music nerd.Collection: Play
Looking natural takes so long! If you look at the runways, the look for models is predominantly natural, isn't it?Collection: Long
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.Collection: Ideas
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.Collection: Teenager
My life is about politics, a lot of about music, and a lot about things other than acting. I like traveling the world. But, what makes me want to stay in this business and keep doing this are movies when it's a true labor of love.Collection: Acting
I love the eyebrow pencils. I do my brows every day. I won't leave my house without my brows! My beauty disaster from childhood was trying to look like Kate Moss and plucking all my brows off.Collection: Eyebrows
I've learned that it's important to spend some time in a relationship with yourself and not being defined by your partner.Collection: Important
I love the writing process. It's something that I'm interested in personally and something I always do on every movie.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Life Changing
I can never describe myself as a movie star. I don't know when that happens but it's certainly not me.Collection: Stars
I have to say that I approach every project with the same energy. I also think that, since I started producing, I see the process from a different perspective, which affects the way I jump on board immediately.Collection: Thinking
Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.Collection: Inspiring
The opportunity to be able to tell stories to a massive audience is really incredible and this job couldn't be more satisfying. So, any drawbacks I think are worth it if you really enjoy the work. I hope to be doing this until I die.Collection: Jobs
I believe in a world where mothers are not expected to shed any physical evidence of their child-bearing experience. In that same world I believe there is space for exercise to be as much a gift to your brain as it is your body. I don't want to waste my time striving for some subjective definition of perfection. I'd rather rebuild my strength while dancing my ass off...literally .Collection: Mother
I loved being pregnant. I felt unapologetically curvy, sexy, and intensely feminine. After giving birth I joined the ranks of millions of new mothers when I moaned, 'Why do I still look pregnant?'Collection: Sexy
I was just learning to be by myself. He seemed to really see me, see through the bullshit...He was so handsome, and he could dance. I thought, 'He won't be interested in me; I'm not a contender. He was so cool, so funny - I was such a fan of his and had always fancied his speed and his intelligence. I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough or his type.'Collection: Beautiful