101+ Lily Collins Quotes On Friendship, Hiring And Evolution

Lily Collins is an English actress and model. She is best known for her roles in films such as Mirror Mirror, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, and To the Bone. She is the daughter of singer Phil Collins and has appeared in various magazines such as Elle and Vogue. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Lily Collins on love, friendship, life.

Top 10 Lily Collins Quotes

1. In the end when you accept yourself for who you are and you work with what you've got, you couldn't be more beautiful because you're confident and everyone notices.
2. To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and happiness.
3. It truly is the power that you have deep within yourself that gives you the strength to pursue your dreams.
4. No matter what, I need to maintain my sense of self and always be true to who I am.
5. Think before you speak. Think before you judge. Think before you think you have a person all figured out.
6. There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.
7. Life works in mysterious ways but when you find your inner glow is back and shining brighter, you know it's right.
8. I really think everything happens for a reason.
9. Never once does 'Snow White' herself look in the mirror so she isn't aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It's really just the queen and the prince that talk about it.
10. I was actually the one who decided to move to LA. Mom and I were driving on Sunset Boulevard during one of our trips back to see her family, and I said, 'Can we just stay?' So we did.

Lily Collins Short Quotes

• When you trust and have elevated personnel in each department then the sky really is the limit.
• I'm not against Twitter or Facebook. I'm not against anything. Never say never.
• My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.
• My last name may have opened doors, but I have to keep them open.
• I loved the idea [of improvisation], but I'd never taken any classes or practiced it.
• I never go with something in mind. I like having an array of generations in my outfits!
• I love clothes, but I don't have a specific favorite, because I'm very much a fashionista.
• I sing some songs but don't expect me to release an album anytime soon.
• I've only ever known growing up across different countries - to me it's just fun.
• I'm just fascinated by visiting actual castles in the countryside.

Lily Collins Quotes About Love

My advice for girls who are waiting for their Prince Charming is to be open for anything. Be open to new experiences, be open to the idea that it may take longer than you want, but if you're open to meeting new people and new adventures, then love will come along. — Lily Collins

No, I like to wear as least amount of makeup as I can during my everyday life because I'm just all about keeping my skin healthy and hydrated and I love to laugh and have a great time and smile - that's when I feel the most pretty so I just want to make sure that I stay happy. — Lily Collins

I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood. — Lily Collins

To play someone I loved in my favourite fairytale as a kid is a total honour. — Lily Collins

I love baking, it's the most calming thing for me. It's therapeutic, it makes the house smell good, and I get to take the goods to my friends. I do it for other people. — Lily Collins

I think the big thing is the fairy tale. It's taking old folk fairy tales and retelling them in modern day. I think it's just taking you out of everyday life, and everyone loves a good fairy tale. — Lily Collins

I love to test boundaries. — Lily Collins

I watched a few of Warren Beatty films when I was growing up...my Dad loved 'Heaven Can Wait.' — Lily Collins

The idea that I get to travel and do what I love and call it a job is just a blessing. — Lily Collins

I would say [I love] writing, because lately I've been finishing my book. — Lily Collins

Lily Collins Quotes About Life

I've grown up knowing that you put as much of your private life out there as you feel comfortable with. — Lily Collins

Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if they're right until the very end, so do the best you can and hope its right. — Lily Collins

When it comes to the work, I'm excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that's when I don't pay attention. — Lily Collins

I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that. — Lily Collins

Lily Collins Quotes About Beautiful

I've realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful. — Lily Collins

It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but I hated them and couldn't wait for them to grow back. Now I embrace them. I realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful. — Lily Collins

Big brows weren’t the look in L.A., where I grew up. But my mom instilled in me that it’s the quirky things that make you beautiful. — Lily Collins

I did a film recently in the Republic of Georgia [upcoming 'Halo of Stars'] which was based on a long poem written by the director. We found that all these words were beautiful as a poem, but for humans it was more about the emotion or a look than just saying what was there. — Lily Collins

Lily Collins Quotes About People

I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects. — Lily Collins

I think it's just important to not judge people based on their physicality because it's really about personality and people's hearts and souls. That's what drew me to Audrey Hepburn who is kind of like my icon. — Lily Collins

For me, if I know that I'm with someone that has proven time and time again that they create work that is so different and that they can do what they say they can do and I'm going to have people around me that can challenge me, that's how I view things now. — Lily Collins

My mom brought me up on old Hollywood. I had been living in Los Angeles. Respecting old movies and growing up with people that were icons that I got to speak to. — Lily Collins

At a party recently I was introduced to Meryl Streep, and it took me a second to get my head around it. You know, that I'm meeting these people now. I'm doing it. — Lily Collins

I had some difficult times when I first moved to Los Angeles when people would tell me I was saying things wrong. I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different. — Lily Collins

People are quick to jump to conclusions. — Lily Collins

I'm not one to hide anything, but I don't feel the need to comment directly on [my relationships]... I think it would be a shame to not live in the moment and not enjoy everything that's happening in fear of other people's opinions. — Lily Collins

It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true. — Lily Collins

Lily Collins Quotes About Feel

Everything for me has happened so quickly. I finished shooting 'The Blind Side' not this past June, but the June before, and all of sudden up to now, it seems like it's gone from zero to 60 for me. I feel so fortunate to be able to say that. — Lily Collins

I think it's a scary sign of the times that pop culture and social media is so involved [in presidential election ], where it feels like a reality show. I have hope that the right decision will be made. — Lily Collins

I think it's important to relate to one another about issues that you're having, because the second you open up and someone else says, 'Oh, me too. I feel the same way,' then all of a sudden, you feel more at peace with yourself and you can feel more confident with who you are. — Lily Collins

I don't wear dresses all the time - it's nice to save those moments for certain occasions and to make it feel extra special. — Lily Collins

Lily Collins Quotes About Girl

I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl or the girlfriend. — Lily Collins

[My book is] a collection of letters and essays about what it takes to be a young woman today. Mostly the taboo things that girls don't want to talk about, but once we do we realize we're not alone. — Lily Collins

As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale. — Lily Collins

My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character. — Lily Collins

Lily Collins Famous Quotes And Sayings

Everything happens for a reason and, of course at times it's very discouraging, but at the end of the day you can't take it personally and move onward because if you let it sit with you, then it starts to eat away at you and you're allowing someone else to steal your excitement. No one wants that. — Lily Collins

I like to think of myself as a very passionate person, and as very determined. So, if I set my mind on something, I definitely stop at no end to find within myself the power to keep going, whether that involves thinking of a new approach to a problem, or physically challenging myself. — Lily Collins

My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff. — Lily Collins

I do believe in listening to your mind as well that that you need to be smart about certain things, to protect yourself. You need a healthy mix of both really, but it's important not to think so much that you're not able to follow your heart. — Lily Collins

Great movie stars like Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor who were capable of saying so much without saying anything at all merely by carrying themselves in a classic fashion that's timeless yet relatable. — Lily Collins

No matter what, I need to maintain my sense of self and always be true to who I am. And that while there are always going to be roadblocks along the way, you're going to be just fine, as long as you learn from each setback. — Lily Collins

Celia [Brady] is a young woman who, you know, she's still got that fresh young vibe about her but at the same time she's quite wise beyond her years and very mature and she has that womanly, sexy quality, but at the same time she's very youthful in her clothes. She has that interesting mix between the two. I really love that balance about fashion. — Lily Collins

Wearing a corset, a ball gown, heels and a swan hat with wings to fight in the forest gave me a whole new appreciation for everyday clothes, because you really become that alter ego while wearing those costumes in those environments on the set. They just influenced everything you tried to do. — Lily Collins

At first, I didn't hang out with celebrity kids. That wasn't the way I was brought up. I went to a run-of-the-mill Catholic primary school when we first moved to L.A. But then I went to a high school where there were lots of 'industry' children. Those weren't my best friends and I've never set out to make myself a part of that scene. — Lily Collins

The fans reacted very positively to me being cast [The Mortal Instruments] which, as a Twilight or Harry Potter franchise, when you read a book and you have someone in your mind or you have a vision and then they're cast in real life, it can go either way. So I was very, very honored and happy that they were excited. — Lily Collins

It's great when improv is encouraged. It's a really fun thing. It depends on who's in the movie and how their process works, as well. It takes a director who is open to that because you have a script, but then something funny could happen on set. So, to have people around you who encourage improv is really exciting. — Lily Collins

I don't really have a favorite song. Music is such a big part of who I am, and speaks to so many different emotions inside me, that I don't have an all-time favorite. — Lily Collins

My older siblings and I all work in 'the industry'. So obviously we have hectic schedules, but we make it work. — Lily Collins

I used to go into rooms of older executives and try to pitch talk show ideas and when I was writing as a journalist I would pitch ideas for my articles and I definitely understand that excitement of a pitch and what that is to be young and a woman and trying to make your voice heard. — Lily Collins

When your whole being is attracted to someone else's whole being, then I think that is someone you were meant to be connected with at some point. — Lily Collins

When I first covered [presidential election ] in 2008, I was asking questions for kids around the world, but mainly for myself. I didn't know the process, I didn't know how it worked. Now, of course, I'm more schooled on it, but I deal with so much politics in my fashion work and in Hollywood, that I haven't been as connected this time. — Lily Collins

Could I see him acting as Warren Beatty directed, and what would that be like? When you see him as those characters, once you get to know him, there is so much of him in them. In fact, I saw so much of him in them that it made me laugh. — Lily Collins

I think I've been brought up very well by both my parents. I am very cautious and I think I'm now fit for the world I'm in. They're very much behind my modelling and very supportive. — Lily Collins

I've grown up seeing the pros and cons but I love it and I've always wanted to act. Throughout all the rejections at auditions, and especially when I finally did get something, both my parents have been so supportive and always told me it is all about passion and, if I was doing it because I love it, there's no wrong choice. — Lily Collins

I used to be a big planner and had to have things figured out ahead of time, but I'm learning to love living in the moment. Last night, I called my friend up randomly and said, 'Where are you? I want to come see you!' It's not a new version of me. I'm just embracing it more. — Lily Collins

I had a mini marathon once I landed the role - going from 'Splendor in the Grass' to 'Bonnie and Clyde' to 'Shampoo' to 'Reds.' I watched them back to back. I found that when you're in the mood for 'Reds,' you're not in the mood for 'Shampoo.' — Lily Collins

The weirdest moments for me are in Los Angeles when I go to a mall that I've shopped at since I was 12, and now there's like, massive pictures of our faces everywhere, at my local coffee shops now there's these billboards of people wearing the T-shirts and stuff. It's very strange, but it's really exciting. — Lily Collins

If you don't have that trust in the backbone of the project, you may not know what you're making. — Lily Collins

I'm a huge fan of the series of books by Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments. I'm a fan myself, so to be cast as the lead heroine is completely incredible. — Lily Collins

I still think there is a huge emphasis on how women look, whether it's fitting a certain mold to play a certain type of character, or the idea that we might have insecurities based on the standards we see in the media. — Lily Collins

I’m a huge fan of the books myself, so to know that I got to play Clary – who’s a literary heroine to me – was a huge honour. — Lily Collins

Snow White has always been one of my favorite fairy tales growing up. To be able to say, "I'm going to be Snow White" - it's crazy. It's an honor. — Lily Collins

I wanted to watch the women interacting with [Warren Beatty], which takes he chose, and how the actresses were reacting in scenes with him. — Lily Collins

It was interesting to portray a character that was so far removed from today's world, but was also at the forefront of feminism at that time. — Lily Collins

Everything was just so spot on and character-building for me in terms of creating Celia [Bryant]. The ability to get to wear all these vintage pieces and immerse yourself in that world and get to wear all these amazing hats. And the shoes! — Lily Collins

But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this. — Lily Collins

Starting at 16 years old I was in boardrooms of older executives pitching talk shows. I wanted to be the youngest talk show host for a really long time. — Lily Collins

I like to think of myself as a very passionate person, and as very determined. — Lily Collins

In the '30s, every day was an event. And, as much as I love that idea, I think nowadays it's nice to have the differentiation of when you dress up and when you don't. — Lily Collins

I don't know if this is too weird to say, but this is completely surreal for me. Bizarre. The cover of 'Teen Vogue' has been on my bucket list forever. — Lily Collins

The greenhouse scene! It was just so fun to have the romance and the action. — Lily Collins

How women dressed every single day back in those days is seen as kind of incredible - it must have taken so much time. But there's something so romantic about that because it's so different to how we dress. That aesthetic is so appealing, it's not what we're used to nowadays. — Lily Collins

I was never afraid of going after what I wanted, and making that known, and being vocal about it. — Lily Collins

Marla [from Rules Don't Apply] especially, believed that she has a certain set of rules that she had to abide by, in order to be successful in Hollywood. How she acted, how she approached things and even in her relationship with her mother - there were a lot more rules and regulations expected of ambitious women, even before they got into the door. — Lily Collins

I love hats, I'm such a fan of hats. You don't wear a fascinator everywhere you go, but there are ways to incorporate old Hollywood nuances into your looks today but also edge it up. — Lily Collins

Definitely with the fit of clothing - how it really depends on mere centimeters and millimeters of difference in terms of how lengths can make such a big impact on your shape. I learned how to incorporate a cute peter pan collar on a dress and not make it look juvenile. — Lily Collins

I’m a big fan of the whip... That snake whip was awesome! — Lily Collins

The idea of improvisation kind of freaked me out. — Lily Collins

It's actually a character choice for a movie I've been filming in South Korea called Okja. My director had this idea of having my hair be a very vibrant red/pink/watermelon color. We haven't finished filming so I'm kind of riding the wave of the red hair right now in terms of everything else that I have to do with The Last Tycoon press and you know, regular life. I'm really loving it. It's turning into a thing for me. — Lily Collins

I like to be comfortable but I also like to look put together all the time. — Lily Collins

A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition. — Lily Collins

Life Lessons by Lily Collins

1. Lily Collins is an example of how hard work and dedication can lead to success. She has worked her way up in the acting industry, always striving to improve her craft and take on new challenges.
2. She also demonstrates the importance of staying true to yourself and your values, no matter what the pressures of the industry may be.
3. Finally, Lily Collins serves as an inspiration to never give up on your dreams, no matter how difficult the journey may be.