Olivia Wilde

“When I have really blonde hair, I usually go for a more natural look, wearing way less makeup.”

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

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

“The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.”

“At the end of your twenties, you realize you are inherently flawed, and that's great, and that's what makes you dynamic.”

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

“At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.”

“I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.”

“Power tends to get confused with repression.”

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

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

“You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.”

“I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.”

“I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.”

“I am a big music nerd.”

“I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.”

“Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.”

“It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'”

“It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually left 'Cowboys & Aliens' and went straight into 'The Change-Up.' It was kind of a funny change of pace.”