Lily Collins Quotes

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.

We're all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don't spend any time, or think they don't, on preparing themselves for the world out there - I think that ultimately they have for their whole lives groomed themselves to be a certain way, to present a face to the world.

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'

I don't want a 'good' image.

It's no big deal if I disappoint strangers.

That's an interesting way to put it: an expectation of who you should be. More often than not, it's described as an expectation of who you are.

To a certain extent everybody has a certain sort of way of being a persona that they learn how to be when they're really little. They figure out that if they're really funny, or really pretty, or if they work really, really hard or are really smart, then that's what's going to get them by. That is what is going to make people like them.

I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

I'm this goofball. I look at myself in the mirror, and the person that I know doesn't match up to what I think people love to perceive me as.

People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork.

Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.

Everyone is insecure. I think, really, it comes from, like, a desire to want to be in control of how you're represented.

I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.

I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.

I think people perceive me completely differently than how I perceive myself. I see myself as a sweet, cosy, motherly type. We all want people to be more glamorous and daring and adventurous than they actually are.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, and when I grew my beard there was a certain freedom, a separation, getting past this the way I looked, identify myself as a spiritual seeker.

The way people see you is the way you really are.

I don't like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.