Latest Lily Collins Quotes from Interviews

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

  Lily Collins

  May, Projects, Backbone

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• When you trust and have elevated personnel in each department then the sky really is the limit.

  Lily Collins

  Sky, Limits, Department

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• 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

  Views, People, Challenges

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• I love to test boundaries.

  Lily Collins

  Tests, Boundaries

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• 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

  Mom, Growing Up, Icons

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• 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

  Beautiful, Stars, Long

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• I loved the idea [of improvisation], but I'd never taken any classes or practiced it.

  Lily Collins

  Taken, Class, Ideas

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• 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

  Character, Laughing, Acting

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• The idea of improvisation kind of freaked me out.

  Lily Collins

  Ideas, Kind, Improvisation

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• 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

  Watches, Actresses, Scene

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• 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

  Roles, Splendor, Marathon

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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

  Lily Collins

  Growing Up, Dad, Waiting

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• 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

  Reality, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• 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

  Fashion, Kids, Asking Questions

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• [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

  Girl, Book, Today

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• 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

  Smell, People, House

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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

  Lily Collins

  Book, Writing, Finishing

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• 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

  Character, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• 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

  Mother, Successful, Doors

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• 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

  Character, Interesting, Feminism

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• 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

  Writing, Ideas, Voice

  "Lily Collins on Her Glamorous New Look for 'The Last Tycoon'". Interview with Olivia Fleming, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 30, 2016.

• 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

  Taken, Dresses, Different

  "Lily Collins on Her Glamorous New Look for 'The Last Tycoon'". Interview with Olivia Fleming, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 30, 2016.

• 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

  Hats, Hollywood, Fans

  "Lily Collins on Her Glamorous New Look for 'The Last Tycoon'". Interview with Olivia Fleming, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 30, 2016.

• 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

  Wise, Sexy, Fashion

  "Lily Collins on Her Glamorous New Look for 'The Last Tycoon'". Interview with Olivia Fleming, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 30, 2016.

• 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

  Character, Shoes, Creating

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com