110+ Olivia Wilde Quotes On Marriage, Jordan Peterson And House

Olivia Wilde is an American actress, model, producer, director, and activist. She is best known for her roles in the television series House and films such as Tron: Legacy, Cowboys & Aliens, and Her. She is also an outspoken advocate for issues such as gender equality, healthcare, and education. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Olivia Wilde on love, life, marriage.

Top 10 Olivia Wilde Quotes

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
5. In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. We have sex like Kenyan marathon runners.
9. 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?
10. Anything that becomes an obstacle in life is only an opportunity to learn and it's the same in any profession I think.

Olivia Wilde Short Quotes

• Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
• The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.
• I was a handful growing up.
• Inspiration is the key to everything.
• Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.
• When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.
• If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
• I had imaginary friends and even they were mean to me.
• I shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair.
• I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

Olivia Wilde Quotes About Love

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. — Olivia Wilde

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

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?' — Olivia Wilde

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. — Olivia Wilde

When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love. — Olivia Wilde

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. — Olivia Wilde

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

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. — Olivia Wilde

We fall in love with one version of someone and we expect them to stay that way, but they never do. — Olivia Wilde

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. — Olivia Wilde

Olivia Wilde Quotes About Life

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. — Olivia Wilde

Music plays a big part in my life. I am a big music nerd. — Olivia Wilde

Being vegan is not always easy and accessible. But it's a way of life and makes me as a person feel really good and physically look better. — Olivia Wilde

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. — Olivia Wilde

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

Olivia Wilde Quotes About People

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. — Olivia Wilde

People have nervous tics they don't know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, 'Is there something I'm doing?' I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them. — Olivia Wilde

Let's redefine scandal. Scandal is not who's dating who. Scandal is 1.2 million people living in tents in Haiti. — Olivia Wilde

When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's a double standard. — Olivia Wilde

People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb. — Olivia Wilde

You really just have to love the process. I can't tell you the amount of film sets I've been on where people are talking about Oscars in the middle of the production. It happens all the time. — Olivia Wilde

I also discovered Pilates when I got pregnant, as people kept saying it's a great way to stay in shape, and now I can't get enough - it's amazing. It helps with aches and pain and, even for non-pregnant people, it's a great way of getting those lean muscles. — Olivia Wilde

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. — Olivia Wilde

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. — Olivia Wilde

Olivia Wilde Quotes About High

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

In fact, I'm softer than I've ever been, including that unfortunate semester in high school when I simultaneously discovered Krispy Kreme and pot. — Olivia Wilde

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

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. — Olivia Wilde

Olivia Wilde Quotes About Working

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. — Olivia Wilde

As a woman who works in a male-dominated business - Hollywood, definitely, being one of them - I instinctually knew what that is like. You have to be strong and take care of yourself. — Olivia Wilde

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. — Olivia Wilde

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. — Olivia Wilde

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. — Olivia Wilde

In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird. — Olivia Wilde

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. — Olivia Wilde

Olivia Wilde Quotes About Feel

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. — Olivia Wilde

Beyond my desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant-based diet, and I feel about a thousand times more energetic. — Olivia Wilde

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. — Olivia Wilde

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. — Olivia Wilde

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. — Olivia Wilde

Do some yoga. I never feel more beautiful than after I've really spent some time breathing. — Olivia Wilde

If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing. — Olivia Wilde

I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me. — Olivia Wilde

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. — Olivia Wilde

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.' — Olivia Wilde

Olivia Wilde Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Olivia Wilde

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. — Olivia Wilde

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. — Olivia Wilde

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. — Olivia Wilde

You're 30: You know stuff now. Your 20s were for 'ducking up,' as my auto-correct would say, and learning from those mistakes. (For instance, never again will I convince myself that sleep is for sissies and go straight from a party to the airport. You will not 'sleep on the plane'; you'll vomit in the security line. Go to bed.) — Olivia Wilde

In the next election, can we vote to ban those ribbon things that kind of keep clothing on hangers but really just hang out of your armpits? — Olivia Wilde

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. — Olivia Wilde

I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor. — Olivia Wilde

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. — Olivia Wilde

It seems like a dangerous concept to have someone who's just your drinking buddy. Someone you have nothing in common with, if you're sober, is probably not a good, healthy friendship. — Olivia Wilde

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan. — Olivia Wilde

A real feminist doesn't apologize for her beauty. You can be a sexy, beautiful woman and be the smartest person in the room. — Olivia Wilde

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. — Olivia Wilde

Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part. — Olivia Wilde

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. — Olivia Wilde

So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain. — Olivia Wilde

In Alien, Sigourney Weaver's role was written for a man. In Salt, Angelina Jolie's role was written for Tom Cruise. These things, when reversed, do prove to be just as exciting and entertaining with women in leading roles. — Olivia Wilde

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

Looking natural takes so long! If you look at the runways, the look for models is predominantly natural, isn't it? — Olivia Wilde

I've learned that it's important to spend some time in a relationship with yourself and not being defined by your partner. — Olivia Wilde

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. — Olivia Wilde

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

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

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. — Olivia Wilde

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. — Olivia Wilde

I love the writing process. It's something that I'm interested in personally and something I always do on every movie. — Olivia Wilde

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.' — Olivia Wilde

It's boring to play the girl role! — Olivia Wilde

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. — Olivia Wilde

My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America. — Olivia Wilde

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

Seeing the energy of 'SNL' made me want to be a part of it. If that was a job, I thought, that was the job I wanted. That was my plan. Comedy. — Olivia Wilde

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. — Olivia Wilde

Friends, haters, it's Twitter poll time. What do you think most holds back justice and equality for women? All thoughts welcome! — Olivia Wilde

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

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. — Olivia Wilde

I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity. — Olivia Wilde

I am a big music nerd. — Olivia Wilde

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.' — Olivia Wilde

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

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 . — Olivia Wilde

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

I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night. — Olivia Wilde

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

Ladies and gentlemen, Otis Alexander Sudeikis has LEFT the building! (I'm the building) — Olivia Wilde

I think my confidence has developed over the years, in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be. — Olivia Wilde

All actors should experience public failure. — Olivia Wilde

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

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. — Olivia Wilde

I know, I've never had boobs before! — Olivia Wilde

I could find David Beckham naked in a cardboard box on my doorstep and I would drop him off at the pound. — Olivia Wilde

Life Lessons by Olivia Wilde

1. Olivia Wilde has demonstrated that hard work and dedication can lead to success, as she has achieved great success in both acting and directing.
2. She has also shown that it is possible to stay true to yourself and your values while achieving success in the entertainment industry.
3. Finally, Olivia Wilde has demonstrated that it is possible to use your platform to advocate for causes that you are passionate about.