Lily Collins Quotes

I grew up as normally as any other kid. Between that small TV part I did at five and when I turned professional actor at 18, I stayed away from the limelight, so I was just like any typical kid who went to school.

I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.

I still had a normal childhood with my friends from school.

I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

I was never very happy at school.

When I go to school, I'm always happy because it's a normal kid thing.

I had done the child acting thing, which is pretty much learning your lines, standing there looking natural, and having fun.

I like to be in 'The Walking Dead,' and I like to play video games and just hang out with my friends and try to be as normal as possible, so going to college would be another really cool, normal experience in my life.

It's nice to socialize with some normal students, and kind of separate from my skating life with academics.

I started out as a child actor. Back then, I didn't have a manager or company, and I couldn't even dream of having a stylist. My mom made and bought the clothes I would wear. I think that was probably when I first got into fashion.

I did my share of kid acting, like lots of us do. I even played King Herod when I was 6, but when I got to the end of my school period, that was it.

High school was so much fun, and it wasn't a wreck at all.

I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered.

I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age.

My mom always made sure I lived my life as a regular kid.

I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.

I really wanted to go to high school and be normal.

Some skaters, they live for skating, and they are home-schooled. I'm very lucky my parents let me go to school and have a normal life.

I didn't grow up as child actor.

I had a very nice, cozy childhood. I did lots of plays at school and worked with the National Youth Theatre as a teenager.

I went to a high school, I took tests, I took finals, I went to football games - I did the whole thing. Because I really wanted to have that normalcy.

The idea of being with my peers at a real school seemed much more exciting than making movies.

I went to private school for two years, then Aptos Middle School, and I finished at McAteer. Several of my classmates at those schools are my friends today.

It was pretty surreal to be auditioning as a kid, and I'd get close to these actors that I really respected. I remember River Phoenix in particular. I met him at an audition hall or something.