Lily Collins Quotes

I know this is going to sound corny, but I love my life. I love my baby, so I love getting to wake up with him. And I have the most amazing job, with writing that any actor would love and costars who I can't wait to see on Monday mornings. And I love coming home to my husband.

I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly I've worked with men and women who loved their profession, and who like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for.

In a lot of work places, you work at a lot of jobs and people work more with their colleagues than with their family.

My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, my three sisters, and their families.

Ever since I started my career, I have been busy with four to five releases a year. I enjoy being busy.

I am living my dream because I get to work with my kids and watch them find their happiness. It's so rewarding - we brainstorm around a conference table and have a really great time doing it.

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

No affairs for me. It is so wonderful to have a family to come home to, to sit with them, pull each other's legs... To lose all of that for what? Who's got the time? I'm having great fun working.

I'm probably the only person who goes to work and says 'Wow, it's really nice here and sweet,' even in the competitive movie business.

Money is just a low priority for me. I'm more interested in good work than a big bank account.

At the end of the day, you want to work with people you want to work with - regardless of what they've done. Being able to spend 15 hours on a set with somebody and enjoy every minute of it - that's what it's really about.

I like working, I just don't like to get involved in the competitiveness of it.

I want my kids to know that what I do is work. It's fun, it's a great job, but it's work.

For my father, life was uni-dimensional. Reliance was his life. Yet, some of my most vivid memories are about spending time with him. However busy he may have been, whatever the pressure, Sunday was for his wife and kids. I try to do the same with my family.

In modern life, we tend to forget family values because of the hectic schedule.

I know that I'm in the minority to be able to keep working all these years. But I want more!

Love your job, stay punctual, and appreciate everything!

Europeans still believe that working is for living. Americans often have that the other way around.

A man's prime interest in life must be his work.

I work 110-hour weeks.

You're isolated as a writer, so I always envied people who could get up early and drive to work and fit into society.

A huge part of my life is my job, and that's the highest compliment you can pay to any job.

I've been through periods where I haven't worked and would have paid someone to give me a job - I think that's really helped me feel very grateful to have a job, even when I have a call time of 3:30 A.M. My mom laughs when I text at 4 A.M saying, 'I love my job.'

You cannot criticize a man for going to work. You really cannot.

You would think none of my brothers have jobs with how much time they spend on the phone with our mom.