Lily Collins Quotes

People perceive actresses in a different manner when they are portrayed glamorously. I don't want that to happen with me.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.

When you look at movies, the lead girl is always gorgeous and thin. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way and when you get in the business you really feel the pressure.

It's hard to always be reduced to the way you look or your sex appeal or what that is.

I grew up with a lot of body image issues - not just about my weight, but I would always see these perfect orb, domed boobs on television, and think, "Mine don't look like that." I thought there was something wrong with me.

Men have better self-images than women. You know what I've never seen in a men's magazine? A makeover.

With a woman I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a man with a big nose (Jimmy Durante), and emphasized his nose, and he was very pleased with the picture. That could not happen with a woman. The most intelligent woman will reject a portrait if it doesn't flatter her.

A lot of actresses feel the pressure to constantly look good, to constantly show how well-toned every inch of their bodies are and how much they've been to the gym, not necessarily to do justice to the role they're in, but to point out to the producers out there, 'Hey, look what I've got - remember me for your next project.'

It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like.

I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.

As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

From a male perspective, you don't think about how much outward pressure and importance you put on how women look.

By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefront ads, magazine covers or TV shows, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.

We live in a crazily youth-orientated world nowadays. It's a trickle-down thing. We see pictures of lithe, attractive celebrity couples such as Brad and Angelina or the Beckhams cavorting around, covered in tattoos, stomachs as flat as the singing in early 'X Factor' rounds.

It's incredibly difficult to keep a healthy body image in this business.

I still have very normal insecurities, but I've always been made to feel like a body is a body, and it's not supposed to look like what you see in the media.

I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.

Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs.