Elizabeth Olsen Quotes
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The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.
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Living in L.A., I was embarrassed to say that I wanted to be an actor.
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You want everyone to succeed in your family.
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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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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.
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I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.
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People don’t need careers. People should just exist.
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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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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.
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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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We leave Scarlet Witch without a home, without a family, and she ends up creating a surrogate family within the Avengers and making a decision to be a part of the team. I think a lot of that has to do with what Jeremy's character - like his attitude towards her and the speech he gives her at the end of the film. So we pick up with her having started a new life, but still trying to figure out what her abilities are and if using them causes greater good or greater damage.
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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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What is this land of Instagram, social media? Having a lot of likes and a lot of followers, and getting paid for it? I kind of found it to be really twisted, but then I started to see how it worked, and see how powerful it was, and how impressionable we all are.
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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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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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I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.
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I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.
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Normally I don't feel like having a belly full of pasta.
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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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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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I don't know about you, but my girlfriends have been my girlfriends forever, and they're my sisters and my family.
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I feel it is obvious when someone has thought too much about what they're wearing.
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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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When I'm wearing heels at events, my feet feel like they're sitting in pools of blood.
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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.
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I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.
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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.
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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.
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Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.
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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.
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