66 Quotes by Olivia Thirlby

I’ve always wanted to be an action heroine. That’s a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass.

I am always plagued with ‘I’m not skinny enough, I’m not in shape.’ I am not naturally this super-svelte kind of girl. I’m okay with that in my personal life. But it is kind of hard at times. I feel inadequate, I suppose?

My hair had been dyed blonde for ‘Dredd.’ After ‘Dredd,’ I was really fried because of the blonde hair dye, and so I cut it into a bob with bangs and that’s how it was during ‘Being Flynn.’

I feel naked without jewelry. If I’m having a bad hair day, I pick something from my huge collection of hats.

I’m such a homebody. I don’t party. I don’t drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.

I didn’t have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

I love to cook. My dad’s a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.

I feel like it’s always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It’s often times your greatest ‘flaw’ which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

I think 3D can be an incredible thing on a movie and a terrible thing for a movie, depending on what kind of movie it is. And I’ve seen movies where I thought the 3D really enhanced the experience, and sometimes where I thought it just detracted from it.