Lily Collins Quotes

Roy Schneider was cool. I learned quite a bit from him.

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

Some of the best advice I've gotten was from William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr. I've really learned a lot from both of them.

I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

You're always attracted to someone you want to learn from.

I learned so much from Ric Flair... just listening to him guide me early in my career.

Witten was my guy. I stayed in Wit's hip pocket and did everything I could to learn from him, learn how to be a pro.

My dad had a huge influence. He's my idol, and I'm following everything he did, looking for something I can use myself.

Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too.

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.

David Jacobs is a great influence on my life, has taught me so much about so many things.

I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.

I believe my father has and always will be the strongest influence in my life, as he has guided me on many paths.

My father was an inspiration to me; I made a few movies with him and I loved working with him. Everything about him - his whole approach to work, as well as his love, enthusiasm and respect for it and other people in the business - was inspiring. I was very lucky to have him as a role model.

I think the years on 'The Donna Reed Show,' the years from 14 to 19, were so incredibly important. Donna Reed was simply an extraordinary woman, a woman of great strength, kindness, integrity and compassion. I am not trying to make her sound like a saint, but she had the most profound influence on me. I carry her with me today.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.

I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.

You can't tell them anything, but hopefully they will learn from the example and won't have to go through it.

Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.

My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.

Not many young women of my age have been lucky enough to have had a wonderful mentor in their life.

I don't think there's any better education than learning the intimate details of the lives of people who you most admire.