Top 100 Blake Lively Quotes

In the olden days, a couple could be in every movie together, but it’s just not like that anymore.

There are lots of actresses I consider to be my icons, from Katharine Hepburn and Grace Kelly to Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep.

Fragrance is a bit of a selfish gift because it’s comforting when you’re near someone and you recognize their smell.

I’ll never forget the time my mother showed up with her best friend and two daughters, and all four of us dressed up in matching clothes, shoes and hats to go pick up my brother from school. I thought it was a fun thing to do, but we stepped outside my brother’s school and he was mortified!

Since my kitchen is the most important part of my home, I want to be creative and innovative, not only in its aesthetic, but also in the tools that I’m using to cook.

In high school, there are so many cliques. You’re never safe.

You can’t really go wrong as long as you’re true to yourself.

Often you see people on the red carpet with tight up-dos, but that makes me feel stiff.

I have a tight-knit Southern family.

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it’s yours forever. If it doesn’t, then it was never yours to begin with.

It’s difficult to wear such high Louboutins and also freestyle rap.

My anonymity is something I treasure.

My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design.

I love to photograph the gorgeous landscapes when I travel.

I don’t watch TV.

I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I’ve already justified buying seven coats!

I always like hair being a little messy because I think there’s something appealing about the whimsy of putting on a gown with any hair or make-up – just stepping into it, and you’re ready.

My family is probably too involved in my life because they are my best friends, but I love that.

When I was a child, I probably should have been medicated about my obsession with The Spice Girls. I had the Buffalo shoes, a customised Baby Spice necklace – when I say custom-made, it was made out of plastic from the local mall – and a Union Jack dress.

I wear a lot more glitter around the holidays, so I’m always wearing different glitter nail polish or fun metallic eye shadow. It’s the holidays – everything is more twinkly and celebratory.

You can learn a lot from criticism if you can take what’s constructive out of it. If you read a review that starts with, ‘This person is an idiot; who do they think they are?’, you’re not going to learn anything from that.

If a guy can play Guitar Hero with me and sit at home and watch the Food Network and read magazines with me, that’s good. I don’t think there are many guys that’s fun for. It’s a lot to ask.

Creating something I can use is the best stress reliever.

I think a pixie cut is so cute. I just think that everyone that has one is the most courageous person. It’s so daring to do that! I get geeked out by people when they do that. They’re awesome. Would I do it? Maybe.

Honestly, I’m so sick of myself.

My mother had very humble beginnings – to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning – ‘no foolishness,’ as he would call it.

I’m so used to being within 10 minutes of my family.

If I could spit out a litter of kids, I would.

I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!

I really don’t like the gym. I like experiences, so I take any chance I get to go on a bicycle or on a hike.

I was in a show choir. I can’t sing or dance to save my life, but I was very passionate. People said my parents paid the choir director to let me in. It was actually the parents who started that one!

I always loved fashion.

My mom is a huge woman of worth for me because she’s been my idol my whole life. My mom was someone who juggled everything. She had her own career, she raised five kids, she was Superwoman… and she was never satisfied doing just one thing because… she probably just had too much energy.

Design, whether it’s on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It’s mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns – elements that you wouldn’t often put together in an interesting way.

My hair is a safety net for me, so I love to have it down and full and relaxed.

I need good friends who can say, ‘I love you to death, but you look terrible in that, and you need to change right now.’

After my first year on ‘Gossip Girl,’ everybody said, ‘You’ve got to do a big commercial movie, ride this wave.’

To be around me, you must love food, or I’m the most obnoxious person you’ve ever met.

When I moved to New York, I started switching fragrances. Between different seasons I would change fragrance, or if I was going out for a big fancy night versus going out in the daytime. But I also found that I was changing and growing so much.

Each day, I choose my age.

It is hard that people don’t just let you do your job for them and entertain, and then carry on your own life.

I feel a lot. I get really bad stomachaches all the time. So I went to a doctor, and he said, ‘You’re a feeler.’ I take on people’s pain a little too much.

Family is at the heart of everything I do.

Everybody on our cast is very musically talented, except for me.

Soy lattes get me through my day!

When you don’t have someone to model yourself after, you’re going to make mistakes.

I grew up in L.A., but I was the only one in my family born there.

I came from a big family – two brothers and two sisters. So, there were always a ton of boys around and a ton of girls around. So, I grew up comfortable with both sexes.

I can’t believe we’re being paid to live in New York.

Emma Stone, I think, always looks beautiful.

My dad was an English professor.

The New York that Frank Sinatra sang about, people will never know that place. The New Orleans that Louis Armstrong sang about is the New Orleans that’s still there – it’s preserved.

Forget the fake syrupy stuff. Melt down a bar of chocolate, mix it into some warmed up whipping cream, and put it on top of ice cream. Add some sprinkles, and you’ve got a delicious treat.

I want babies. Lots of babies. Of course!

My first child is going to be the oldest sibling to the next kid, and that may change with each and every year. I’m looking forward to how one baby influences the other, and to my family as a whole, to every single chapter.

The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree – those to me, are the scents of the holidays.

I first started wearing fragrance when I was thirteen or fourteen, and the smell was candy-like. They were in very colorful bottles, like turquoise and pink. By the time I was sixteen or seventeen, it got more girly and more floral.

I always love somebody who makes me laugh, who’s fun to be with.

I should hope I dress differently at 25 than I did when I graduated high school. I hope I never stop changing.

What can I say? I feel good when I’m wearing heels. I feel sexier, attractive.

Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.

On average, I order about three meals for myself in one sitting.

I kind of feel like I grew up at Disneyland.

I came from a big family… a big family of Southerners.

My dad actually makes the best cookies. My mum is great baker, too, but doesn’t share them – it’s tantalising! Luckily for me though, my dad shares his!

If you want someone to miss you, go secretly and spray your fragrance somewhere.

I love to have my hair down; I love to have my hair full… there’s something romantic about it.

I’ve been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.

The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it’s not that he’s super that is his focus; it’s that he’s a man. He’s very human. That’s his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.

I’m always the person who’s taking everyone else’s kid and putting them on my hip, so I’ve kinda always been a mama.

When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the ‘Lion King’ soundtrack. It’s really odd, but it’s true.

I don’t really need a personal trainer or watch what I eat. I can’t start the day without a hot chocolate or finish it without a few squares of dark chocolate. It’s good for my mood!

My dream as a passionate cook has been to go to Le Cordon Bleu. Never could my most incredible dream have lived up to the experience. The food, the lesson, the chef, the ingredients – all the best of the best. I see why Le Cordon Bleu is world-renowned.

I feel like heels must be a workout! I know that they’re really bad for you, but I run around in heels a lot and go up a lot of stairs, so maybe that’s my terrible workout. I know that’s not really a workout.

My mom would have different fragrances for different times of the year. They were a part of her identity. I don’t remember the specific ones she used, but I remember the bottles.