Olivia Wilde Quotes

Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

Everybody knows that I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world.

I'm still conscious of whether people really accept me, but that insecurity makes me stronger.

Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.

I am always drawn to men that are funny. I do not know why. But I am always drawn to people that are struggling with parts of themselves... But it's like in the end, there has to be confidence.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

I didn't grow up beautiful.

I think everybody, especially every woman that you speak to, has gone through periods of their life where they feel uncertain or insecure. But I've been fortunate in my own life never to have gone through extended periods of crippling insecurity.

I have had the fortune of seeing very glamorous and beautiful woman close up and I have seen their fears and insecurity.

If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.

I've never had that concern of thinking of myself as stupid.

If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.

Oh, very well, do you want to know why I really think you should keep a journal?" She nodded. "Because someday you're going to grow into yourself, and you will be as beautiful as you already are smart.

There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful.

Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

I wish I knew at 14 not to put much thought into what other people my age said to me, cause we were all looking for the answers. So I wish I knew that other people really don't know any more than you do!

I'm 43 now. I've reached the point where I really can't care what anyone thinks. Of course, I do. I'm an actress. I'm totally insecure, but I'm trying to stick to my guns about what is important to me, and it doesn't matter what anyone thinks I should or shouldn't do.

I'm not an insecure person, per se, but I just never saw myself as the girl who walks into a place and everybody goes, 'Wow.'

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

Well, I'm clearly not ugly.

I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become.

Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

A man is always better than he thinks.