Olivia Quotes

I love the mid-length skirt. That's really appropriate, you can wear that in many different day occasions.

I took you to an intimate restaurant, then to a suggestive movie. There's nothing left to talk about, unless it's horizontally.

There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.

I simply have a marvellous life, a very lucky life.

I would not be comfortable appearing in a country where they have permitted the destruction of such beautiful and intelligent animals.

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.

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.

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

I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young.

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.

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

As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.

I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.

I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.

Growing up I had a lot of really negative energy in my life from people that were in my life, so I know to how to stand up for myself.

If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.

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.

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.

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?'

When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.

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 not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.

My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.

I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.

Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.

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

All you have to do is put on the Bettie Bangs and everybody automatically knows what it means.

I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

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.

If I love the character, then thats all that matters to me. It doesnt really matter what genre it is.

Sometimes in my life I feel like a bit of a sorceress who can't totally control all their power. I'm a Libra, so... Libra women are pretty magical.

everybody fancies they have that rare thing, a sense of humour.

Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.

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

Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

As for highlights, of course "Grease" changed my life and I will always be grateful for that experience.

I love you. I honestly love you.

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

Be okay with who you are. And that you can't choose your parents or what life you were born into, but you can choose the kind of person you want to be.

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

I want you to like me, but I don't care if you don't.

There's never been anyone like Bettie Before. Monroe had Harlow and Detrich, she had all of those blonde bombshells, but there was nothing like Bettie. She was the first icon of her nature.

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.

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

My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.

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.

An actor is an expert at being someone else. A speaker is an expert at being themselves.

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.

My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.