Lily Collins Quotes

I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it.

I didn't have the patience to wait to take a degree before starting work, because I wanted to run my own business.

Since I was 9 years old, I have been working, hustling to find my own projects - from telenovelas to record deals, etc. etc. Way before I met my husband.

From the day I got out of school, I was looking for an idea.

I stayed at 'Cosmo' well beyond my internship, moving up the ranks over some 15 years to become books editor, then brand director, then editor-at-large - editing everything from an excerpt of Gore Vidal's memoir to writing some of those juicy cover lines myself.

While I appreciated the educational advantages I enjoyed in the school and was proud of what I could show in mental culture, I had an earnest desire for something more than a mere business education... I desired to study for a profession, and this prompted me to leave my native state.

I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income.

I didn't want to go get a job or get a degree in business or marketing, or whatever all my friends were getting degrees in.

But I guess the first time I made career money was signing a publishing deal when I was still at uni. That was when I waited to tell my mum that I was dropping out, which was half-way through my first year.

College is something I've always said I wanted to do, but you're going there to get a piece of paper that says you can get a job, but if I'm already working steadily and doing good work, it makes you question your priorities. Right now, I'm in my own film college: filming a TV show.

You don't need a four-year college degree if you have burning ambition or a great plan.

Stay as connected as you can. Sometimes that means you're going to do a job that may not pay you much but may give you a great connection. If the work is not going the way you need it to go, create your own!

I'd like to start my managerial career in England.

I never went to college. I started working when I was 17.

I never had a job. I never saw myself working for corporate business.

After my first ad, I was flooded with offers, which I took up. Soon, I decided that it could be a lucrative business with a parallel college life.

It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.

Ever since I started all of this TV weirdness, I just tried to make each year better than before professionally.

I've virtually grown up in the television industry.

In college, I interned for Diane Sawyer my sophomore summer.

I am greatly influenced by my father who was a journalist.

My background is in broadcast television - I used to be a travel host for BBC, Discovery, and National Geographic.

If you wanna be your own boss, you gotta work your way up - have the skills.

I enjoy my job. And I love the city of Chicago, and this organization - it gave me the start to my whole career.

I'm not of the mind where, 'It doesn't matter what you care about; you've got to have a safe reliable job and do the 9 to 5.' I obviously don't subscribe to that. There's nothing wrong with that, though, if that's what you want to do.