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" My mum always removed her make-up at night and taught me early on about the importance of taking care of your skin, especially when you're travelling or extremely busy, because it's so easily affected by your surroundings and health. "

Lily Collins

Night

Health

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Loved

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Lily Collins

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People

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Loved

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" I'm passionate about speaking out against bullying and speaking up for self-awareness with young people and body-image issues and self-esteem issues. "

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Young

Passionate

" 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. "

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Lily Collins

Being

Grown

" I think we all want to fit in at a young age. "

" 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. "

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

" Every day, there is a person following me, taking pictures. It's bizarre because I'm just going to the gym or getting a smoothie. I don't have the time or energy to be constantly put together all the time, but that's real life. "

Lily Collins

Life

Time

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Lily Collins

Mother

Way

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" 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

Blind

Feel

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Lily Collins

Wait

You

" There's so many different things that you can physically change for a character. "

" I've never acted fully impulsively. I think with my mind and my heart. "

" I want to produce and direct and write one day. "

" I remember lying in bed one night when I was 15 and deciding I was ready to go into acting properly. I'd put it off until then because I didn't feel I was ready to handle the rejections. "

" Morning or night, I love putting mint or spearmint oil on my temples and the back of my neck. There's this aromatherapy quality of both easing tension and waking you up. "

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

" I was very lucky that my first film, 'The Blind Side,' I worked with Sandra Bullock. "