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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 18, 1989

Topics

CharacterDecisionFocusPeopleMe

I don't enjoy doing stand-up. I see it as being like exercise: I feel good about it after I've done it.

Jessie Cave

GoodFeel GoodDoingEnjoyExercise

I'm a mediator by training and inclination.

Joan Blades

TrainingMediatorInclination

When I was a kid, from 10 years old, I worked every day for my dad, huh? Never played basketball. I never played tennis - never did. We worked so that we could eat.

Melvin Van Peebles

DayBasketballEvery DayNeverKid

You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.

Maxim Gorky

ChildrenBetterYouWayWriteSame

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

Robert M. Hutchins

FamilyEducationTimeManPlace

One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.

Robert Mankoff

HumorMindIdeasSituationNewTry

Cardio is the devil.

Stephen Moyer

DevilCardio

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

Tony Blair

LiveWorldLongNewInterdependence

Did I ever think at the time, when I was with the Alouettes and the Chicago Blitz, that I would be head-coaching a team in the Super Bowl? It would be hard to believe. Is it a dream come true? Yes.

Marv Levy

TimeTeamBelieveThinkDreamTrue

I create, dress, and act however I feel in a single moment.

Mija

MomentDressFeelCreateSingleAct

All saints are selfish.

Lorne Michaels

SelfishSaints

A good beginning makes a good end.

Louis L'Amour

GoodBeginningEndMakes

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