Olivia Quotes

I have a dark sense of humor.

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.

I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.

The lost unicorn is in our presence!!

I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.

Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!

As long as you believe in yourself and your own vision, you have something. When you give up that, you are personally bankrupt.

I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.

Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.

I have an obsession with Milk Duds. Eating them tastes like heaven.

Have the confidence to be your own person.

I love horror movies and I love being scared, but I don't like them, if they're not based on a true story. It's like knowing how the sausage is made.

I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful.

I literally hate working out.

I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.

I have really been blessed in my career with some wonderful songwriters and in turn, songs.

The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that they do, just the smallest movement, is very detectible.

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.

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.

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

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

All actors should experience public failure.

I'm still a student of fashion, but I like hooking up with the people that really know how to make cool clothes.

The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.

I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.

I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.

It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.

I am the same on camera as I am off. I can't imagine being any other way.

Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.

Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I’ve always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.

I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.

Lose this battle so we can win the war.

I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all.

I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.

I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.

Work helps. So does exercise. Stuff that numbs you, keeps you from thinking too much.

I am very good at what I do. I am better at it than anybody else.

I work. I have a life. There's not much to tell.

I don't need protecting. I am not the girl you save. I am fine.

It's me. I'm the thing that needs to be fixed. I'm the thing that needs to be handled. I'm the scandal. And the best way to deal with a scandal is to shut it down.

I don't find myself to be the kind of person who is easily swayed.

I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.

That’s the problem with heartbreak, to you it’s like an atomic bomb but to the world it’s just a cliche because in the end we all have the same experience.

The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.