Quotes by Olivia Thirlby - Page 1

I feel naked without jewelry.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Feels
Jewelry
Naked
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I'm not an eye-candy kind of girl.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Girl
Eye
Kind
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I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Comedy
Tragedy
Shakespeare
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I feel naked without jewelry. If I'm having a bad hair day, I pick something from my huge collection of hats.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Hair
Hats
Jewelry
Naked
Day Bad Hair
Collection
Pick
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Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Movie
Actors
Filmmaking
People
Together
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But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Giving
Stuff
Team
Stunt
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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.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Drink
May
Party
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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.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Active
Littles
Social
Social Life
Teenager
Life Always More
Incredibly
Wished
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The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
New York
Cities
Desire
Elsewhere
New York City
Surrounded
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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.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Dream
Action
Blonde
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Sometimes in my life I feel like a bit of a sorceress who can't totally control all their power. I'm a Libra, so... Libra women are pretty magical.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Feels
Sometimes
Sorceress
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I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Opportunity
Men
Appreciate
Young Women
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I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Journey
Blindness
Constant
Eye
My Journey
Thinking
Trying
Life Journey Your
Acute
Beginning
Open
Times
Eyes
Fully
Life Is A
Open Your Eyes
Suffer
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The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that they do, just the smallest movement, is very detectible.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Actors
Differences
Glasses
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Beautiful Person
Self
Tan
Beautiful Most Beautiful I Am
Inevitably
Most Beautiful
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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.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Dad
Cooking
Ingredients
Style
Cook
Fridge
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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.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Bangs
Cutting
Hair
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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.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Feels
Flaws
Thinking
Embracing
Flaw
Greatest Strength
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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.'
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Bangs
Blonde
Blonde Hair
Hair
Cut
Dye
Fried
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When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Advantage
Diverse
Drama
Fun
Starting Out
Take Advantage
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But I would say maybe just from an actress's perspective, probably 'Woman Under the Influence' is the best movie of all time. The style of filmmaking and the performances... you don't feel like you're watching a film.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Filmmaking
Perspective
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But I would say maybe just from an actress's perspective, probably 'Woman Under the Influence' is the best movie of all time... The style of filmmaking and the performances ... you don't feel like you're watching a film.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Actresses
Perspective
Style
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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?
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Girl
Inadequate
Okay
Personal Life
Shapes
Skinny
Naturally
Suppose
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There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
New York
Different Kinds
Exposed
Growing Up
New York City
Over It
Sight
Good City People
Good Thing
Sights
Smells
Sounds
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My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That's my best way to keep from going crazy.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Jobs
Yoga
Best Way
Crazy
Going Crazy
Hobbies
Maintaining
Mental Health
Big Fan
Full-Time
Full-Time Job
Helps
Include
Mental
Relaxing
Schedule
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I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Equality
Believe
Bisexual
Fighting
Truthful
Change Believe World
Phase
Usher
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My boyfriend and I just got a projector, so we've been screening movies on the roof and projecting them against the wall next door. The last one we did, the theme was, "The Russians are Coming". So we screened Red Dawn and Top Gun.
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Doors
Gun
Wall
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I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Feelings
Goal
Might
Term
Audition
Creatively
Stimulated
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I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Keys
Moving
Planets
Rotation
Strong
Sun
Ingredient
Material
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My boyfriend and I just got a projector, so we've been screening movies on the roof and projecting them against the wall next door. The last one we did, the theme was, 'The Russians are coming.' So we screened 'Red Dawn' and 'Top Gun.'
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Boyfriend
Dawn
Gun
Next
Red
Roof
Theme
Wall
Coming
Russians
Door
Last
Next Door
Projecting
Screened
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I did 'Nobody Walks' right after 'Dredd.' Well, actually, I got off the plane from Capetown where we shot 'Dredd' and tested for 'Being Flynn' that same day. Then I came out to L.A. to make this film right after that so it was all very back to back.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Film
Planes
Shots
Tested
Walks
Shot
Plane
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Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
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Acting
Big Deal
Ideas
Notion
Work Out
Work Always Never
Jockey
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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.
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Kind
Sometimes
Thinking
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I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Dream
Trust
Impossible
Juice
Lucky
Pipe
Stage
Trust Me
Trust Great Me
Totally
Less
Flowing
Gets
Juices
Performance
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When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.
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Graphic
Extreme
Alien
Big Challenge
Filming
Darkest
Sell
Generating
Hour
Reference
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Oh, I love making independent films, it's such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and everyone's pitching in. You'll see producers setting up the lunch table and the sound guy driving a van. We're all really there because we want to be.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Independent
Lunch
People
Pitching
Producers
Setting
Love People See
Independent Films
Magical
Small Group
Table
Van
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I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Dream
Character
Explosions
Fighting
Leather
Always Fighting Me
Chick
Heroine
Script
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'Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that was improvised and it had very interesting circumstances while making the film, obviously. We were on a small boat bobbing around in Antarctica. It was a really remarkable experience.
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Antarctica
Boat
Circumstances
Interesting
Red
Remarkable
Three
Years
Shot
Improvised
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There's so much with my character in Dredd that I identify with. She's my favorite character I think I've ever played. She's the most dynamic and fascinating woman that I could even imagine playing, so I love her. What I love about her is that her sensitivity is her greatest strength.
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Character
Imagine
Thinking
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There's so much with my character in 'Dredd' that I identify with. She's my favorite character I think I've ever played. She's the most dynamic and fascinating woman that I could even imagine playing, so I love her. What I love about her is that her sensitivity is her greatest strength.
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Fascinating
Sensitivity
Dynamic
Greatest Strength
Identify
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I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Space
Cinema
Deep Space
Fantasy
Grew
Next
Nine
Sci Fi
Stars
Thinking
Actually
Why
Big Part
Original
Fan
Star
Part
Exist
Definitely
Films
Generation
Place
Star Trek
Trek
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The Movie is something that I made with some friends of mine in L.A. My friend, Luke Eberl, is the filmmaker. He shot this movie and asked a bunch of his friends to be involved with it. I just saw him the other day and there is no money to finish the film. But, you know, I literally have a cameo in it.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Film
Made
Saws
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'The Movie' is something that I made with some friends of mine in L.A. My friend, Luke Eberl, is the filmmaker. He shot this movie and asked a bunch of his friends to be involved with it. I just saw him the other day and there is no money to finish the film. But, you know, I literally have a cameo in it.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Bunch
Filmmaker
Involved
Luke
Asked
Shot
Cameo
Friend
Saw
Literally
Mine
My Friend
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I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.
Olivia Thirlby / Actress
Blonde Hair
Leather
Yeah
Cool Face Me
Neck
Butt
Suit
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To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.
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Sci Fi
Unnatural
Venture
To Be Honest
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