Quotes from Elizabeth Olsen

When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.

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

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

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

I would mimic what I saw in Grease and Guys and Dolls in front of my mom's mirror and I would practice voices and songs. When you put me alone in a room, that's what I would do.

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

I get way too much happiness from good food.

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

Not since I was 10, trying to get Nick Vossler's attention in PE. 'Red Rover, Red Rover, send Nicholas right over!'

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

And I've been taking acting classes since I was 7.

I feel it is obvious when someone has thought too much about what they're wearing.

The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.

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

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.

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'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.

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.

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

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.

I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.

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

I think every time you start a job, it's good to remember that everyone's kind of in the same boat, no one knows what they're doing. Everyone thinks that they don't know what they're doing.

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.