Elizabeth Olsen Quotes

I get way too much happiness from good food.

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

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.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

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.

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.

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've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.

I would mimic what I saw in Grease and Guys and Dolls in front of my mom's mirror and I would practice voices and songs. When you put me alone in a room, that's what I would do.

I'm the curvy one of the family.

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 never wanted anyone to think that I would use my family name to get me anywhere.

People don’t need careers. People should just exist.

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.

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.

And I think in theater, people don't really focus on the media unless there's a huge superstar doing a play or something.

When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms.

Normally I don't feel like having a belly full of pasta.

I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.

The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.

I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.

I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.

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'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 just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.

I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.

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.

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.

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've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.

If you can't really have a conversation with someone candidly about it it's something that you'll always have something to learn from when it comes to taking a literature class.

Yeah well I think her relationships with people become really clear, and I think they all make tons of sense in line with Ultron as well.

My friends and I started making films when I was still in kindergarten.

I like men-inspired outfits.

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.

Not since I was 10, trying to get Nick Vossler's attention in PE. 'Red Rover, Red Rover, send Nicholas right over!'

No, I wouldn't want the paparazzi ever following me in my life.

I've always loved being a student.

Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.

Living in L.A., I was embarrassed to say that I wanted to be an actor.

When I'm wearing heels at events, my feet feel like they're sitting in pools of blood.

My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.

And I've been taking acting classes since I was 7.

I do think in this film [Captain America] we try to tie together that their relationship has gotten stronger - that their friendship has gotten stronger from the last film, sure.

I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.

I really actually enjoy auditioning.

I feel it is obvious when someone has thought too much about what they're wearing.