Olsen Quotes & Sayings

Art is not so much talent as character ... it's what you are, the qualities of the person. — John Olsen

Team doctors' jobs those days were to keep you on the field. — Merlin Olsen

I'd tell my mother to, you know, go you-know-what herself and I would go help those children. They're in an orphanage and they've got family! That's sickening. What does John do? Nothing. His kids are in an orphanage... and he does nothing.
~ Michelle Jarvis — Gregg Olsen

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

about what you found today." Olsen stopped pouring the warm water into a mug. "What I found today?" Felix carefully studied the man's eyes. They failed to meet his own, and answered his question immediately. Yes, Albert Olsen — Christopher Cartwright

OUT OF AN INFINITE LOVE, you, O Lord, have made me an heir of your kingdom and joint heir with Christ. O Good Jesus, to whom else shall I go? You have the words of eternal life. I hope, and I believe in you. Lord keep me from despair. Amen. O — Derek A. Olsen

Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing. — Merlin Olsen

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total? — Tillie Olsen

Stay true to what makes you happy, because that always ends up producing the best result. — Ashley Olsen

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

In the music industry, it's pretty easy to make an album just because you want to keep going, like, 'This is the formula.' But the formula is your life. You have to live your life and you have to live it well-that's the formula. — Angel Olsen

I played 15 years of hockey, and I got more injured doing two weeks of cheer camp. — Eric Christian Olsen

I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see. — Elizabeth Olsen

It came from down where laughter is a defense and not an outstretched hand. — Jussi Adler-Olsen

For the last fifty years or so, The Novel's demise has been broadcast on an almost weekly basis. Yet it strikes me that whatever happens, however else the geography of the imagination might modify in the future in, say, the digital ether, The Novel will continue to survive for some long time to come because it is able to investigate and cherish two things that film, music, painting, dance, architecture, drama, podcasts, cellphone exchanges, and even poetry can't in a lush, protracted mode. The first is the intricacy and beauty of language - especially the polyphonic qualities of it to which Bakhtin first drew our attention. And the second is human consciousness. What other art form allows one to feel we are entering and inhabiting another mind for hundreds of pages and several weeks on end? — Lance Olsen

Oh, readers. If only you knew what we've gone through for you. — Harry Olsen

I'm not really an actress type. I'm an entertainer. — Susan Olsen

I would always prefer radio or working behind the scenes where I don't have to be seen. I don't like how appearance oriented TV is (especially now that I'm middle aged!). But I am developing a show revolving around animal rescue which will hopefully entertain and maybe do a bit of good for the cause as well. — Susan Olsen

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

You'll sleep with the lights on after reading Gregg Olsen. — Allison Brennan

I'm the curvy one of the family. — Elizabeth Olsen

Be critical. Women have the right to say: This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades. — Tillie 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. — Elizabeth Olsen

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

I pride myself on being able to read whole chapters into a single syllable, you know? What girl doesn't? So when Lennon said "Hi", I ran through a whole list of possibilities. Was it, "Hi, I wish you were Chloe instead of Riley so I could make up with you"? Or did he mean, "You look exactly like the girl I'm totally over, so get out of my sight"? Or was it just, "Hi, I hope you're not as down on me as your sister is and, by the way, could you be careful not to spill anything, either"? But none of those sounded right. Finally I had to admit that he might have just been trying to say hello. Call me crazy, but it could be true! — Megan Stine

Tillie Olsen. James Joyce. Robert Stone. I must have read Updike's Rabbit, Run five times and Bellow's Herzog — Pamela Paul

Assad whistled a few notes of one of his native country's melancholic songs. It sounded as though he was whistling backwards — Jussi Adler-Olsen

Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really well. And this is much better than setting fires, so keep it up.' That made me a writer. — Chuck Palahniuk

We have been roommates our entire lives. We just bought a place together. — Mary-Kate Olsen

We've read scripts, and I think right now we are just focusing in on school. — Mary-Kate Olsen

For a writer, I'm not sure that feeling of knowing you've just written something good and strong can be trumped. Not because it means I did something right. But because it proves how many wrongs I pushed through to get there. — Cara Rosalie Olsen

I like men-inspired outfits. — Elizabeth Olsen

You are the land. The land is you. — Merlin Olsen

Wasn't this the way it was for most people? The time they lived in was an open invitation to a cocktail of self-denial and self-glorification. And if you didn't like the situation you were stuck in, there was always the option of running away from yourself; running away from opinions, from your marriage, from old values, from trends that had otherwise meant so much yesterday. The problem was just that out there, among all the new, you found nothing of what you were looking for deep down inside, because tomorrow it would all be meaningless again. It had become an eternal and fruitless hunt for your own shadow, and the was pitiful. — Jussi Adler-Olsen

As a little kid, I suppose I was a little weird. — Susan Olsen

People become librarians because they know too much. Their knowledge
extends beyond mere categories. They cannot be confined to disciplines.
They bring order to chaos. They bring wisdom and culture to the masses.
Librarians rule. And they will kick the crap out of anyone who says
otherwise. — Erica Olsen

I'm definitely bicoastal, but I have to say, it's easier to live in New York than in L.A. I feel like people respect other people's space a bit more here. Everyone has the right to that freedom, right? Everyone has that right. It's freezing in New York right now. In L.A., it's sunny. But I would choose freezing over being followed. — Mary-Kate Olsen

A twin knows exactly when the other one is spitting up, but that's all they know about anything. — Mary-Kate Olsen

I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that I can't even say what inspired some of the songs that I've been singing for a long time anymore. — Angel Olsen

I love to learn; I really do. We'd study something in class, and I'd take it outside of class and become, like, obsessive and just research everything. — Mary-Kate Olsen

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

You're looking at a different me than I'm looking at. — Susan Olsen

I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both. — Eli Roth

For a guy with only one peeper," Olsen commented, "you're doing okay." Morosely, he added: "But you'd sure be up shit creek if you lost the other. — Philip K. Dick

Thank you for making a web site for me. I was so surprised when I found it. — Susan Olsen

I drive a taxi and a car and a truck and a T-55 tank and also a T-62 and armored cars and the motorcycles with and without sidecars. — Jussi Adler-Olsen

I don't think you necessarily need to show off your stomach and boobs to be sexy. I'm just not attracted to that type of dressing. — Ashley Olsen

abstruse (ab-STROOCE), adjective Complex and difficult to comprehend. Abstruse refers to something complex or specialized that requires special effort to grasp. — David Olsen

harshly, the first shift in a demeanor that Bauer — Gregg Olsen

I learned how to be more theatrical and have more fun, and to take a song and sing it over and over again in different ways, and make it different each time. I'm not just singing the song - it's this thing that's affecting me. — Angel Olsen

My Gram said that I would get the role in whichever show God thought was right but it wouldn't hurt to express a preference. I told her that I would like to do 'The Brady Bunch' because I'd have five other kids on the set to play with. God was listening. — Susan Olsen

Her daughter's comment amused Emily. 'I didn't know stalking could be a group activity — Gregg Olsen

mean it wouldn't be the first time a man's — Jussi Adler-Olsen

You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal to you. — Angel Olsen

Carl responding to something Camilla did, "The next time you touch my equipment, I'm going to puncture your silicon boobs and then claim it happened because you resisted arrest after threatening to slug me with one of your brother's trophies. When I slap the cuffs on you, and you're waiting for the doctor as you stare at the blank white wall of a prison cell in Hillerod, you'll dream about taking back that pat you just gave me. Shall we proceed, or do do have anything to add regarding my nobler parts? — Jussi Adler-Olsen

I really actually enjoy auditioning. — Elizabeth Olsen

When I was young, clothes were really just about what fit, because Ashley and I were so tiny. So I understood fit before I understood style. — Mary-Kate Olsen

When I was a teenager in the late 30's and early 40's, electronics wasn't a word. You were interested in radio if you were interested in electronics. — Ken Olsen

I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses. — Mary-Kate 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. — Elizabeth Olsen

If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree. — Susan Olsen

Our whole philosophy was to intimidate the quarterback. We were able to do it. We were pioneers. People still recognize us as, maybe, the best defensive line of all time. — Merlin Olsen

I'm the type of person who would rather stay home than get my picture taken. — Ashley Olsen

I grew up horseback riding. That was my passion. I didn't start shopping until about 16 or 17, when I could drive myself to stores and explore on my own. — Mary-Kate Olsen

Most exciting for me was to make the Pro Bowl in 14 of 15 years. — Merlin Olsen

I had a hockey puck and stick-the only ones in town. I definitely would have played hockey ahead of football, had it been available. — Merlin Olsen

Painting is a means of self-enlightenment. — John Olsen

Tropical night breezes from the mountains rattled the copey leaves along the boulevard where Harry Penfield was hiding. Harry had planted those copey himself three years before and was astonished that he could conceal himself in their dark shadow such a short time later. He shifted the holstered .38 more toward the center of his back and listened for the sound of an engine. — Jimmy Olsen

A lot of people ask me if I'm OK. I'm capable of crazy - a lot of people are - but I'm OK. — Angel Olsen

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

I believe in small government and people taking care of themselves. — Susan Olsen

Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used. — Tillie Olsen

I just wanted to be an athlete. — Merlin Olsen

Maybe it was more than that. Maybe some things shouldn't be explained. — Gregg Olsen

The most important thing that everyone should bring to the dining experience is a certain generosity of spirit. Just remember that there are two kinds of people: lovers and others. And you know what you can do with the others. — John Olsen

Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones. — Tillie Olsen

Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse. — Tillie Olsen

We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live. — Mary-Kate Olsen

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

I'm a successful businessman, a very successful bussinessman,' he said, dead-eyed to the camera. 'Guys like me don't kill our wives. We trade 'em in and get a new one — Gregg Olsen

There was a photo of me with weird sunglasses on and a green sweatshirt, some striped thing, with tights and cowboy boots ... I just saw that photo and thought, 'God, I look crazy.' — Mary-Kate Olsen

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

Every woman who writes is a survivor. — Tillie Olsen

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

When the Word is stored in the heart, the individual finds it a wonderful power in preserving him from outbreaking sin. — Eric Christian Olsen

The second difference between the introvert and the extrovert is how they experience external stimulation. Extroverts like to experience a lot, and introverts like to know a lot about what they experience. — Marti Olsen Laney

People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common. — Angel Olsen

When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again. — Mary-Kate Olsen

I would mimic what I saw in Grease and Guys and Dolls in front of my mom's mirror and I would practice voices and songs. When you put me alone in a room, that's what I would do. — Elizabeth Olsen

I was doing auditions and meetings during the day and going to culinary school at night. And then 'NCIS' happened. So I dropped out of culinary school. — Eric Christian Olsen

No one looks up at the sky anymore. — Megan K. Olsen

It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool. — Angel Olsen

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

The best part was the food. There are some great Italian restaurants we go to whenever we are in Toronto, so the eating was a definite highlight. — Mary-Kate Olsen

There's so many things that we could do. — Ashley Olsen

I am the cute one! She's just my sister. — Mary-Kate Olsen

I think part of that comes from time's passed, and she's been in an environment where training is part of the thing. It's not like we do a montage of her discovering her powers like in every X-Men film but yeah, there's no montage. But she does have these new abilities that we pick her up with. — Elizabeth Olsen

I was adopted legally around age three, but it's not like this thing I think about when I wake up every day. I was adopted by my foster parents, so I was comfortable with them. I wasn't in this alien place. — Angel Olsen

More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible — Tillie Olsen

But promises based on ignorance always prove disappointing. — Jussi Adler-Olsen