Top 25 Elizabeth Olsen Quotes

You want everyone to succeed in your family.

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

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 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.

I get way too much happiness from good food.

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.

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.

Yes, I don’t read books for entertainment.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I like men-inspired outfits.

Normally I don’t feel like having a belly full of pasta.

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

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

I really actually enjoy auditioning.

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

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

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