“A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattra...” — Olivia Wilde Quote

A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.

At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.

Seeing the energy of 'SNL' made me want to be a part of it. If that was a job, I thought, that was the job I wanted. That was my plan. Comedy.

This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.

Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

The kind of films I do, people assume that I am not a fashionable person, but I am an urban girl, and I have always been fashionable.

Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.

I carry a lot of feminine energy as well as masculine energy, and that's the hit that people are getting. That vulnerable thing is not what we assume with black males. You get it, and then they cease to become scary. They become human. You cease to have a bogeyman.

If the Iraqis fail to implement the reforms, if they fail to get a handle on the violence, there's nothing the United States can do, militarily or otherwise, that can solve those problems. They have to assume the primary responsibility to govern themselves.