Elizabeth Olsen Quotes

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

In my acting class there was this acting exercise going on, and I remember asking a buddy, "Do you ever do this at your apartment when no one's home? Do you ever act out these hypothetical moments?" And he goes, "No, Lizzie, because that's called crazy." Whatever, I was 20 and doing it so who cares.

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

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

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.

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

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

My favorite thing about acting is you have to learn how to work with people that you probably would never try to. Some people just aren't supposed to be in a room together, and you have to be in a room with a group of people who might not all get along and you have to figure out how to come together for one thing. That collaboration is special, and people don't get to exercise that. I think that's why people become stubborn, and I think that's why people become uninspired to change. In this job you have to.

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

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

I like men-inspired outfits.

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

My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.

I don't know about you, but my girlfriends have been my girlfriends forever, and they're my sisters and my family.

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

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

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

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.

I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.

And I think in theater, people don't really focus on the media unless there's a huge superstar doing a play or something.

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.

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

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.

If you can't really have a conversation with someone candidly about it it's something that you'll always have something to learn from when it comes to taking a literature class.

People don’t need careers. People should just exist.

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

I would mimic what I saw in Grease and Guys and Dolls in front of my mom's mirror and I would practice voices and songs. When you put me alone in a room, that's what I would do.

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'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.

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.

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 every time you start a job, it's good to remember that everyone's kind of in the same boat, no one knows what they're doing. Everyone thinks that they don't know what they're doing.

Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.

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

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.

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.

I like being able to play make believe as my job. I think I played make-believe growing up a little too long - probably to an inappropriate age. I played make-believe until I was, like, 13 and probably should have been doing something else. But other than that, it's fun to be able to have to learn about different people.

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

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.

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.

Yeah well I think her relationships with people become really clear, and I think they all make tons of sense in line with Ultron as well.

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

I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.

I think there's something unique in the fact that her powers come from the same thing that powers him, and that is how we've made them have that kind of... that specifically in common, as opposed to it being something else that the comics kind of created, which has been pure romance. But they do have something uniquely special because of that.

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

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.