Olivia Wilde

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

“There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women.”

“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.”

“I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”

“Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.”

“I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.”

“I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.”

“It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow.”

“But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.”

“Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.”

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

“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.”

“From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.”

“I used to experiment all the time with my hair color.”

“In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.”

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

“You really just have to love the process. I can't tell you the amount of film sets I've been on where people are talking about Oscars in the middle of the production. It happens all the time.”

“I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.”

“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.”

“If I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.”