Olivia Wilde

Olivia Wilde

Actress, Producer, Director

Olivia Wilde is an acclaimed actress and director known for her roles in 'House' and 'Booksmart', as well as her advocacy for social issues.

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Born
March 10, 1984
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"I'd like to refocus everyone's attention away from the Kardashians and onto Doctors Without Borders or aid workers. Let's redefine scandal. Scandal is not who so-and-so is dating; scandal is the fact that 1.2 million people are still living in tents in Haiti, and cholera is rampant because Nepalese U.N. soldiers dumped s- from their Porta-Potties into the river. That's a f-ing scandal. If the average 15-year-old was hearing about that instead of so-and-so's plastic surgery or cheating in Hollywood, I'd feel better about our future."

Cheating Feel Better Rivers
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"The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood is the selflessness that it introduces you to, and I think that's really freeing... I think it allows you to put yourself in other people's shoes...the empathy that it slugs you with, being a mother. And I think it makes you a better storyteller."

Mother Thinking Shoes
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"It was so fascinating to be a part of this, because as the women took on these central roles that had all the good lines, therefore all the good laughs, all the great moments- the men, who had joined us to sit on stage, started squirming rather uncomfortably. And got really bored. Because they weren't used to being the supporting cast. It was fascinating to feel their discomfort, to discuss it with them afterwards when they said, 'It's boring to play the girl role.' And I said, 'Yeah. Yeah, ya think? Welcome to our world.'"

Girl Bad Ass Men
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"I think my confidence has developed over the years, in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be."

Thinking Years Want
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"I believe in a world where mothers are not expected to shed any physical evidence of their child-bearing experience. In that same world I believe there is space for exercise to be as much a gift to your brain as it is your body. I don't want to waste my time striving for some subjective definition of perfection. I'd rather rebuild my strength while dancing my ass off...literally ."

Mother Children Believe
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"I got an internship with the casting director of The Girl Next Door. I would hold the clipboard and help them in their casting sessions and get them lunch."

Girl Doors Lunch
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"Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks."

Optimism Fearless Risk
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"I love the eyebrow pencils. I do my brows every day. I won't leave my house without my brows! My beauty disaster from childhood was trying to look like Kate Moss and plucking all my brows off."

Eyebrows House Childhood
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"Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it."

Compassion People Weakness
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"Beyond my desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant-based diet, and I feel about a thousand times more energetic."

Animal Desire Way
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"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."

Girl Australia Competition
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"I was just learning to be by myself. He seemed to really see me, see through the bullshit...He was so handsome, and he could dance. I thought, 'He won't be interested in me; I'm not a contender. He was so cool, so funny - I was such a fan of his and had always fancied his speed and his intelligence. I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough or his type.'"

Beautiful Bullshit Fans
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"In the next election, can we vote to ban those ribbon things that kind of keep clothing on hangers but really just hang out of your armpits?"

Clothes Ribbons Next
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"The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority."

Priorities Parent Firsts
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"A real feminist doesn't apologize for her beauty. You can be a sexy, beautiful woman and be the smartest person in the room."

Beautiful Sexy Real
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"Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria."

Inspiring Mom Mother
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"So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character."

Character People Alex
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