Olivia Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

I can never describe myself as a movie star. I don't know when that happens but it's certainly not me.

There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places.

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.

I thought "I've coped with some crazy situations, and I can do this." But working with Roman Polanski is so different from the fashionable and accepted way of directing now.

My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.

I've been lucky enough to kiss three James Bonds on screen: Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby and Daniel Craig.

I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.

I am the worst judge of how a movie is going to do. I always have great and ambitious hopes, but none of them see the light of day.

I'm 5'9" and have the body of an English person that doesn't know how to diet.

When The Sixth Sense was the No. 1 movie in America, I had a Canadian boyfriend whose only assets at the time were a guitar and a van. I don't know what I was thinking.

I love the ups and downs and the eccentricities of my career. The worst movies have produced some of the best friendships.

I think it's quite lucky that I lead this lifestyle, and in fact, my career's only gotten better as I've looked older, because it ages you, the uncertainty.

I really needed to have something in my life, because I realized there were other things more important than my career. So I love having my children and my family.

When Roman Polanski did give you a "Great, great, great!" you were just like, "Thank you, Lord, for this magical moment."

I'm not much of a Method actress, so even though my character in The Ghost Writer was quite dark and bad-tempered, I could only do that if I was seeming quite perky.

I don't tend to spend the whole day in the personality of the person I'm playing.

The excruciating moments of drama are when people are allowed to show or say what they feel.

I tried not to get too addicted to reading the Whedonesque website, because it could become obsessive. They were a charming and loyal bunch of people to whom I'm eternally grateful.

Isn't that the tragic thing about women? That we live on long after our passions have died?

What we really need is only a heart of surrender & always trust what God has plan for our life. So we do our best, God shall take the rest. That's what I called FAITH.

What have I done to her?" Gabriel muttered to himself as he crossed the room to crank open a window. Cool air washed over his skin. "What the devil did she do to me?

Tangled Moon ~ Sometimes you have to break the rules. Sometimes you have to let go of the past. And sometimes you have to accept the impossible.

It never ceased to amaze me how she just had the facts always, in her head. It occured to me that if, or when, she died, a whole load of facts, a body of knowledge, might disappear without a trace.

Only five books tonight, Mommy, " she says.No, Olivia, just one."How about four?"Two."Three."Oh, all right, three. But that's it!

Great fear can cast love out.

... freedom is the knowledge of necessity and there is no wealth but life. When you understand that you understand everything.

Be alive. Feel it, and be happy of it.

[of Nan Goldin] In an afterword to Ballad written in 2012, she declared: ‘I decided as a young girl I was going to leave a record of my life and experience that no one could rewrite or deny.

It's good to feel attractive on the outside, but being smart and confident on the inside is what counts.

Art is my Life.

... everyone regrets something, but you can't change the past. You've got to let go and make new memories until the old ones fade enough that they don't hold any power over you.

The sharp, superficial pain at being spoken to unkindly had obscured the deeper pain, which had not yet turned into something hard and heavy.

If my heart grows any fonder, it's going to hop out of my chest and into yours.

Write from your heart, write with blood and courage.

An opportunity, no matter how small it is, is still worth a golden chance. So take it or have regrets for the rest of your life.

Mizuko loved reading the dictionary. She liked it when there were multiple meanings for words and when opposite meanings could be contained.

Ignorance breeds fear. Tell people the truth. Trust them to keep their heads.

It doesn't matter if people doesn't know that you do a good thing nor the right thing. But he nor she must know your expression of love.

She won't know it if I'm not say it." Say that 3 times, and you should know what's the main problem.

At some point, you have to set down the past. At some point, you have to accept that everyone was doing their best. At some point, you have to gather yourself up, and go onward into your life.

Waking in the morning, I had to remember grief all over again. It was sunny, a white winter sun, and that made me sad.

See. I told you I would get that boy to the alter eventually. All I had to do was pretend I was a loon.

Don't waste your time to make new dreams. but waste it to make one of your lifetime dream, come true.