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" I've always been weirdly interested in food documentaries. "
Lily Collins
Been
Always
Weirdly
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" 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. "
Lily Collins
You
Funny
Fun
" I sang for 'Mirror Mirror.' I love singing. "
Lily Collins
Mirror
Love
Singing
" I love mixing in high street stuff and vintage. "
Lily Collins
Love
Street
Vintage
" Even in L.A., where everyone's in yoga pants, I've never been the girl to run around in sweats. "
Lily Collins
Where
Girl
Run
" I was raised by my mom, pretty much, and she just had this very non-judgmental, having no shame about yourself, no regrets, just trusting your gut and your instinct, and treating yourself with respect. "
Lily Collins
Mom
No Regrets
Yourself
" As an actor, you gain weight, you lose weight, you change your hair color, and you make changes physically and emotionally to be able to understand the character. "
Lily Collins
Color
Change
Changes
" 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 Own
Girl
Fairy Tale
" Every movie that I'm in is very different in terms of aesthetic and costume. I mean, from 'Mirror, Mirror' to 'Mortal Instruments,' I went from dressy dresses to leather and heels and tight, sexy, chic outfits. "
Lily Collins
Mean
Sexy
Mirror
" I would love to do a British period drama. "
Lily Collins
Period
Would
Love
" 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
Judge
Personality
Me
" I've always loved writing. "
Lily Collins
Loved
Writing
Always
" I've never acted fully impulsively. I think with my mind and my heart. "
Lily Collins
Heart
I Think
Mind
" Art is an amazing form of being able to share our experiences and tell stories and hopefully relate to other people, but you don't know how everyone else is always going to react to what you put out there. "
Lily Collins
People
Know
Art
" I really think everything happens for a reason. "
Lily Collins
Everything
Happens
Think
" My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices. "
Lily Collins
Me
Tell
Different
" I really, really love Lucy Hale. "
Lily Collins
Lucy
Really
Love
" I graduated high school, and I always wanted to go to college, but I also really wanted to work at a young age. At 18, I was pitching talk show ideas to different networks. I was a journalist. "
Lily Collins
Age
Work
School
" 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
Know
Reading
Focus
" 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
Character
People
Me
" I love the royal family. I even got up in the middle of the night to watch Kate and William's wedding. And I never miss the Queen's speech on Christmas Day. I feel it's my duty as an English-born woman to watch. "
Lily Collins
Family
Love
Day
" To be able to say, 'I'm going to be Snow White' - it's crazy. It's an honor. "
Lily Collins
Snow
Honor
Going
" I'm a huge fan of the series of books by Cassandra Clare, 'The Mortal Instruments.' "
Lily Collins
Mortal
Huge Fan
Huge
" To play someone I loved in my favourite fairytale as a kid is a total honour. "
Lily Collins
Someone
Total
Kid
" I've had to prove myself. But I'm driven, and I would love to make my own mark on the world. "
Lily Collins
Myself
World
Love
" I just want to start conversations. I want to do films that prompt conversations - whether that is positive, negative, indifferent - just ones that you leave the theater wanting to know more, wanting to watch the film over and over again. "
Lily Collins
Negative
Positive
Start
" 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
Believe
Character
Girl
" I didn't want to have people open doors for me. My dad never made a call on my behalf to anyone - not to a producer, a director, or a casting agent. "
Lily Collins
Me
Want
People
" 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
Meeting
Me
Know
" Not many people know my father was an actor. He was the Artful Dodger in 'Oliver!,' and was in a film called 'Frauds,' too. It's interesting talking to him about acting, how much you can get turned down, and how not to take that as a discouragement. It's nice to have that element to relate to for us both. "
Lily Collins
Father
Nice
People
" I remember the screen test for 'Gossip Girl' was on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank. I was about 17 or 18 years old at the time. I remember driving onto the lot and going, 'Oh my God. This is surreal.' "
Lily Collins
Girl
Time
Test