Elizabeth Olsen Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I get way too much happiness from good food.”
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“I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.”
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“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.”
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“I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.”
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“I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.”
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“I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.”
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“It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.”
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“My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it.”
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“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.”
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“And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character.”
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“When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.”
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“No, I wouldn't want the paparazzi ever following me in my life.”
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“I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.”
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“I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.”
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“I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.”
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“People don’t need careers. People should just exist.”
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“I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.”
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“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.”
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“Not since I was 10, trying to get Nick Vossler's attention in PE. 'Red Rover, Red Rover, send Nicholas right over!'”
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“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.”
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“My friends and I started making films when I was still in kindergarten.”
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“I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.”
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