Olivia Quotes

In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript.

When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.

I've always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don't care. I really believe we are all a part of God.

Inspiration is the key to everything.

I am extremely grateful. And that brings me back to reality on the days I am complaining about something.

Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.

Early detection is key," she said. "And if I hadn't found my lump early, I don't know what would have been. I am still here and I want to encourage women to do that on a regular basis.

My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere.

I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.

I always like to play with a lot of color. Color is great.

I’m a much nicer person, much more laid-back and relaxed, not serious like they show me.

It's always great to have two inspirations, one that has more of an editorial purpose and one for more of an everyday, wearable approach.

I get my inspiration from young stylish girls I see all over my travels.

I am not the girl the guy gets at the end of the movie. I am not a fantasy. If you want me, earn me.

We wake up and are grateful for the day. Not taking away from the pain, because the pain will be there. But you live on.

I am thankful for all the blessings and talents I have been given, but most of all I am thankful for my loving and supportive family.

I may be a young girl, but behind every young girl is a powerful father.

I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly.

Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one.

Of course we fight. What sisters don't battle?

I was just a mini-star when we did 'Gone With the Wind.'

The TV business is soul-crushing, talent-destroying and human being-destroying.

Beauty is found in the way you treat others.

The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity.

If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.

I was a big fan of Super Troopers, so working with the Broken Lizard guys was so much fun.

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.

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 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.

I always have a vision when I go in, I always know what I want to do.

Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.

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.

The Irish question is this: Do the Irish know the answer to everything? ... And the answer to that is that we know fifteen different answers to every question. All of them right.

I was a handful growing up.

No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.

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

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

I live my life in gratitude.

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.

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.

I find churches limit me.

I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.

I want to get physical, let's get into physical, let me hear your body talk, your body talk.

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?

The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.

A lot of songs are inspiration and help people through pain, grief and loss.

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

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?'

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.'