Olsen: "I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better."

Olsen: “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.”

Olsen: "I realize that in order for things to be good, everyone’s opinion really matters and counts."

Olsen: "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."

Olsen: "I'm a very social person and I love being out in the world, and the feeling of not having that is the scariest thing to me."

Olsen: "I like being able to play make believe as my job. I think I played make-believe growing up a little too long - probably to an inappropriate age. I played make-believe until I was, like, 13 and probably should have been doing something else. But other than that, it's fun to be able to have to learn about different people."

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

Olsen: "Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool."

Olsen: "I really actually enjoy auditioning."

Olsen: "I've been really interested in how people's physicality can manipulate their emotions, as opposed to emotions manipulating someone's physicality."

Olsen: “I've always loved being a student.”

Olsen: "It just felt playful, like you're playing make-believe. I can imagine myself during recess or before school on the playground being like, 'I'm Scarlet Witch! Pow!' To think of little girls being like 'I'm powerful and strong and tough!'- that's really cool."

Olsen: "I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me."

Olsen: "In my acting class there was this acting exercise going on, and I remember asking a buddy, 'Do you ever do this at your apartment when no one's home? Do you ever act out these hypothetical moments?' And he goes, 'No, Lizzie, because that's called crazy.' Whatever, I was 20 and doing it so who cares."

Olsen: "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."

Olsen: "In general, I like seeing just enough information. In the script, there was definitely more of it, but always with the intention of getting it down to its basics."

Olsen: “I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.”

Olsen: "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."

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

Olsen: “I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it.”

Olsen: "My friends and I started making films when I was still in kindergarten."

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."

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

Olsen: "Everyone is always surprised by how old I am. They think I'm older, but it's always been that way. I'm the youngest of four - maybe you grow up quicker because you just watch the big people."

Olsen: "I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care."

Olsen: “When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms.”

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

Olsen: "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."

Olsen: "I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about."

Olsen: “I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.”

Olsen: "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."

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

Olsen: “I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.”

Olsen: "Yeah well I think her relationships with people become really clear, and I think they all make tons of sense in line with Ultron as well."

Olsen: "When I'm wearing heels at events, my feet feel like they're sitting in pools of blood."

Olsen: "If you can't really have a conversation with someone candidly about it - it's something that you'll always have something to learn from when it comes to taking a literature class."

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

Olsen: “I've only done one shoot where it's modeling clothes, not like me in my environment. And the stylist, literally, I had her stand behind the photographer and do poses.”

Olsen: "I don't know about you, but my girlfriends have been my girlfriends forever, and they're my sisters and my family."

Olsen: "I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising."

Olsen: "Actually, one time my mom tried to send me to my room for a time-out when I was 5 or 6, and I was like, 'Fine! I like my room! All my imagination and toys are in my room!' I will never forget that. And she will never forget that."

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

Olsen: "And I think in theater, people don't really focus on the media unless there's a huge superstar doing a play or something."

Olsen: "I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche."

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

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