Lily Collins Quotes

Sometimes I like to think it would be nice if you just had a character, and your personal life was your personal life. My life is definitely out there, you know?

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

I wish over the years I had kept my private life private and my professional life a little more professional.

It's not my job to get really personal in how I express myself. I've met fans, and they've been lovely. But letting my personal life out there, I don't think is a good idea for me. I think the more you do that, the more you can be accused of encouraging that kind of attention.

My relationship with Salman Khan is too personal to talk about. I take my work like any other regular job, and what I do in my personal life is no one's business. I'd rather let my work do all the talking.

I'd like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that's not possible. In the present, I'm trying to pretend it's possible.

I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligatory in terms of promoting them. My life outside of films is vital to me.

I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.

My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private.

I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality.

Your personal life is something that's gonna last forever, and your career in stage, film, television, whatever, is not necessarily going to do that, so to keep the two separate's a very good thing.

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.

In my career as an actress, I have never got involved with anybody from the world of films. I have always kept my professional and personal life separate, as that's my policy.

I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.

As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.

I am really good about compartmentalizing and treating my family as one thing and the show or whatever my job as a secondary thing.

I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.

I understand why people might be interested. But I just don't talk about my personal life. It's a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

I think, in our life I think that when you are an actor, when you are a producer, you have to be very discreet about your personal life, and you have to be closed in, in harmony and in affection and in everything.

Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives; but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.