Lily Collins Quotes

The journalist in me always loved relating and socialising and connecting with people, but there came a point where I needed to make a decision to stop that being my focus and really focus on acting - an audience are only really going to believe me as a character to an extent if they don't know me as Lily that well.

Lily Collins

• People
• Believe
• Character
• Stop
• Focus
• Decision

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• I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Human
  • Characters
  • Flawed

• I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Women
  • History

• I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • She
  • Perfect
  • Morning

• We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Work
  • Country
  • Happiness

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Positive
  • Research
  • Negative

• I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Same
  • Now
  • Weight

• It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Women
  • History

• My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Team
  • Language
  • Brother

• I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Want

• I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.

  

  Sam Walton
  • America
  • More
  • Anybody

• This Islam business kidnapped me.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Business
  • Me
  • Islam

• I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Family
  • School
  • Home

• I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Career
  • Fashion
  • Chances

• I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Song
  • Me
  • Singer

• Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Strong
  • Sometimes
  • Exercise

• If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • Music
  • Nature

• What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Society
  • Government
  • Justice

• I have always been fascinated with guns. I grew up in America, so, granted, it is part of our heritage, and it is written into the laws of how this country is run.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • America
  • Laws
  • Guns

• The content has to be good; medium doesn't matter to me.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • Good

• I don't want to scar people with my baby flab. I have this extra skin that's hanging. I'm in shape, but my skin, from having a baby, is not cute, hanging off of my baby.

  

  Kendra Wilkinson
  • People
  • Baby
  • Cute

• A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things.

  

  Elsa Peretti
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I didn't like doing team presentations at races, being introduced as the winner of the Tour. I felt quite embarrassed by it.

  

  Bradley Wiggins
  • Team

• The journalist in me always loved relating and socialising and connecting with people, but there came a point where I needed to make a decision to stop that being my focus and really focus on acting - an audience are only really going to believe me as a character to an extent if they don't know me as Lily that well.

  

  Lily Collins
  • People
  • Believe
  • Character