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All actors should experience public failure.

Olivia Wilde

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Olivia Wilde
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: March 10
Activist
Actor
Actress
Businessperson
Film Actor
Film Director
Model
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
New York City
New York
Olivia Jane Cockburn
Olivia Jane Wilde
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I tend to go with a daytime look, pretty natural, but I always fill in my eyebrows - I hate if I leave the gym and my eyebrows aren't done I'm just very uncomfortable with myself.
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In a relationship I'm a very loving person, emotional and sensitive.
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In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
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I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.
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I have a lot of friends who I really feel like I can kick back with and let all pretense go and be very comfortable with.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
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Cleanses and products don't make you look more beautiful. They certainly help, but if you reach contentment, you're set. My makeup artist, Melanie Iglesias, couldn't figure out why my skin looks so good. I think it's because I'm happy!
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I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.
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In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.
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Trying to find this industry's tendency to celebrate the physical is a waste of time. So I'm happy to play the game. But I am also thirsty for input. I'm not a dunce whose only skill is knowing how to take a photograph, you know? And at the end of the day, I think it makes me slightly less replaceable.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.
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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.
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At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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It's really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting men. And it's really hard to get men to be a part of films that are about women in a leading role. I'm really interested in how we can adjust that.
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As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.
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