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

- Elizabeth Olsen

Love, Date, Would, Chef

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

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My Life, Want, Ever, Paparazzi

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

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Romantic, Sees, First One, Theaters

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.

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Thought, Through, Maybe, Volleyball

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

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Like, Belly, Having, Normally

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

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Book, Reading, Feel, None

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

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Know, Been, About, Girlfriends

I'm the curvy one of the family.

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Family, Curvy

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.

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Why, Movie, Put, Understood

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.

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Everyone, Everyone Else, Open

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.

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Thought, Always, Last, Conversation

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

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Worry, About, I Believe That, I Believe

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.

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Modeling, Behind, Like, Poses

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.

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Always, Other, Active, Figuring

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

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Love, Sure, Read, Novel

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.

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Big, Been, Maybe, Surprised

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

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Play, Doing, Think, Superstar

I like men-inspired outfits.

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Like, Outfits

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

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Learn, Think, I Think, Soak

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

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Seasons, Always, Equally, Happening

I really actually enjoy auditioning.

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Enjoy, Actually, Really, Auditioning

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.

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Business, Been, Actress, Older

Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.

- Elizabeth Olsen

Love, Amazing, She, Kate

But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.

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Die, Before, Read, Script

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

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Famous, Some, Like, Chef

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

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Always, Complex, About, Taken

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

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Thought, Wearing, About, Obvious

I get way too much happiness from good food.

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Happiness, Get, Too, Much

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

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New, Works, Sets, Academy

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

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Learn, About, The History Of, High School

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