Elizabeth Olsen Quotes

I'm the curvy one of the family.

What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.

I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.

I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.

I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.

When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms.

I think a lot of films do themselves a disfavor by putting in way too much information, and everyone knows what's gonna happen next, and no one can actually discover things as they go.

Not since I was 10, trying to get Nick Vossler's attention in PE. 'Red Rover, Red Rover, send Nicholas right over!'

The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

I like men-inspired outfits.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.

But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.

I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.

I never wanted anyone to think that I would use my family name to get me anywhere.

'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.

My friends and I started making films when I was still in kindergarten.

I feel it is obvious when someone has thought too much about what they're wearing.

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

No, I wouldn't want the paparazzi ever following me in my life.

Everyone is always surprised by how old I am. They think I'm older, but it's always been that way. I'm the youngest of four - maybe you grow up quicker because you just watch the big people.

I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.

I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

I get way too much happiness from good food.

I'm a very social person and I love being out in the world, and the feeling of not having that is the scariest thing to me.

I've only done one shoot where it's modeling clothes, not like me in my environment. And the stylist, literally, I had her stand behind the photographer and do poses.

I think she by this point has learned that Stark's not specifically responsible for her parents' death - that it's more something that has to do with him stopping ... I think there's even a reference to him stopping his selling of weapons because they cause damage.

I just think my family is so normal, but no one wants to accept that. I find my family to be normal because there's an understanding of what every job entails. And it is a job. It's not this fantasy that Hollywood and movies are all glitter and stardust.

When I'm wearing heels at events, my feet feel like they're sitting in pools of blood.

Living in L.A., I was embarrassed to say that I wanted to be an actor.

If you don't like something, talk about something else that's great and maybe someone else will discover it and think it's great too.

One time my mom tried to send me to my room for a time-out when I was 5 or 6, and I was like, "Fine! I like my room! All my imagination and toys are in my room!" I will never forget that. And she will never forget that.

We leave Scarlet Witch without a home, without a family, and she ends up creating a surrogate family within the Avengers and making a decision to be a part of the team. I think a lot of that has to do with what Jeremy's character - like his attitude towards her and the speech he gives her at the end of the film. So we pick up with her having started a new life, but still trying to figure out what her abilities are and if using them causes greater good or greater damage.

I really actually enjoy auditioning.

You want everyone to succeed in your family.

It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.

I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

I do think in this film [Captain America] we try to tie together that their relationship has gotten stronger - that their friendship has gotten stronger from the last film, sure.