Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen quotes: child actresses turned fashion entrepreneurs, here are the Olsen twins’ top quotes.
“The way I see it, you have to take every chance you get because there may not be another one. You have to learn from your mistakes because nobody’s perfect. You have to laugh, love, and live every day as if it’s your last.”
“I think everything happens for a reason, so there is no such thing as fail.”
“I find it’s better to focus on what’s in front of you and to keep putting one foot in front of the other.”
“I think the hardest part to get to is that point of asking for help or reaching out to other people and being honest with yourself.”
“I run on the weekend. You find the thing that helps you relax and if you don’t have it, you have to look for it. Or you get burned out and then you’re not productive.”
“There are just some really beautiful people in the world. When you’re walking down the street, or you’re at a restaurant, someone catches your eye because they have their own look. It goes way beyond what they’re wearing, into their mannerisms, the way they smile, or just the way they hold themselves.”
“It’s always fun to become friends with anyone who has a different profession, a different life, it opens doors. All my friends do such different, creative things. It’s so awesome.”
“I would never wish my upbringing on anyone, but I wouldn’t take it back for the world.”
“I live a very normal life. I have friends, and I’ve always gone to school. The part that’s not normal is that I’ve been working since I was nine months old, but at the same time, it’s completely normal to me.”
“We had to decide: ‘Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our senior prom?’ We opted for Saturday Night Live.”
“I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school.”
“When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.”
“I think we have the same goals in mind. We are not planning on just all of a sudden taking a film and separating. Hopefully one day she can direct me in something, or I will direct her. Or we’ll produce a movie under our company’s name.”
“We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.”
“We think differently, we feel differently, we respond to different things or we react to different things. But we have the same ultimate goals in mind.”
“We are so fortunate to have each other. We hired every person on our team. We have full control, and we’re lucky to be under one roof. That you cannot take for granted. When you have your sister and BFF by your side, you pretty much can’t go wrong.”
“I always looked at myself, even as a kid, as a businesswoman.”
“Listen, I used to be in the entertainment industry. I decided at 18 that I don’t really want to do this anymore. I wanted to explore other things, and with that came The Row [Ashley and Mary-Kate’s luxury fashion label].”
“There was a lot to learn, obviously. You have to learn about fabrics, mills, pricing, what your margins need to be, merchandising, marketing. I was fortunate to know a lot of people from my personal life who were really able to teach me a lot.”
“I’m focused on building a true American brand. For me it was the control. I needed to make sure I could see the product being made. Things like this are successful when you really care, when you are paying attention to every single detail.”
“We feel like we’re responsible for what our brand and our company represents.”
“It is what I love. There are so many voids in the market, and I want to find those opportunities and make the most of them.”
“We don’t go around partying and doing bad stuff that we could be caught for. We are very wholesome and we don’t go around flaunting everything. We’re not really rebellious. We’re not trying to be something that we’re not. I’d rather be known as a little girl than as a sex symbol.”
“We’re used to being on the other side of the camera and managing the process, so it’s hard for us to do shoots. That’s why you have models.”
“I don’t really have a set goal of what I want to do, like what this is all for, but I always like to just keep going until I have to stop.”
“Well, eventually, when we’re older, I think we’re going to try to do things on our own maybe, I don’t know. Maybe she directs and I act, or I act and she directs, and I think we’ll always have some things going on together.”
“There’s so many things that we could do.”
“It’s weird to be called a celebrity or talk about it. I don’t talk about being a celebrity in my business meetings. I don’t talk about it with my friends. It’s not a part of my life. It’s a media perception of who I am.”
“I wear weird things sometimes. I like to drink coffee. Neither of those things have anything to do with who I am.”
“I love getting amazing jackets, because you can wear your pajamas underneath and everyone’s like, ‘Oh fabulous jacket,’ and I’m like, ‘You should see what’s underneath.'”
“I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don’t know?”
“Now that I’m older I’m more aware of things that make me feel complete as a person. I’m trying to concentrate on those things as opposed to things that make feel empty.”
“We’ve stayed really normal and down to earth I think, and haven’t let the success thing go to our head.”
“I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I’d love to open up a restaurant or café.”
“Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What’s not to love!”
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