Top 30 Lily Quotes

When I was nine, my great grandfather, a landscape painter, taught me to mix colors. With his strong hand surrounding my small one, he guided the brush until a calla lily appeared as if by magic on a page of textured watercolor paper.

When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.

I love Beyonce. She’s so fierce. I also love Lily Allen, and she was an influence on my music.

I have an old dog named Lily, and she’s a black lab.

The record company doesn’t know what to do with me, because I’m not a Lily Allen, but I’m not really an indie artist, either. All the best artists have been in the middle.

Lily Tomlin, Judi Dench, Carol Burnett, Linda Emond, Meryl Streep, Janet Mctyre. I saw all these women on stage, and I experienced a feeling that is the artistic equivalent of huffing paint – the world kind of went away, and I felt exhilarated. Also, I drooled a little.

Whoopi Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, Julia Louis-Dreyfus – I put Issa Rae in that category of comic genius.

I don’t understand why people make me want to make music that’s a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, ‘Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you’ or, ‘You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.’

I joined the Ballets Russes when I was 14, and my name was changed twice. I was known as Marie Istomina, then as Felia Siderova. When I went to Hollywood and made my first movie, ‘Mission to Moscow,’ in 1943, I became Lily Norwood.

Everyone thinks Lily Allen is this brash, bold, funny person. It was all just a bit of a facade and bravado.

No, I won’t ever write another ‘Lily Bard.’ I said everything I had to say about Lily.

I miss the outspoken pop stars like Lily Allen.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Lily’s really together – she’s a sharp kid and one of the smartest human beings I have ever met. Whatever she is doing, if she needs any advice, I’m there for her. Kids are going to make their own decisions, but I guess that the only thing you can do as a parent is to offer support. And I do.

You get the wig on, you put the lipstick on, you get the big eyelashes on and that’s the GC. It’s like Paul O’Grady when he does Lily Savage… But when I’m not working, I don’t wear a scrap of makeup.

A lot of people have the misconception that I decided to become an actor when Lily became famous and have accused me of jumping on her bandwagon. But that’s completely untrue.

If you ask most people, ‘Who’s Lily Allen?,’ they’ll say, ‘That girl who’s in the papers all the time.’ Not that girl who wrote songs.

If everyone had a business model like Raven + Lily, I feel like the world would be an awesome place to live in.

The journalist in me always loved relating and socialising and connecting with people, but there came a point where I needed to make a decision to stop that being my focus and really focus on acting – an audience are only really going to believe me as a character to an extent if they don’t know me as Lily that well.

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.

When I buy something from Raven & Lily, I know that it is good, it is not harming anything, and the people making it are being helped.

Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on ‘Saturday Night Live’ as the head writer the first year we started it.

I have a music video I was in coming out for M83 for their song ‘Claudia Lewis.’ It’s directed by Bryce Dallas Howard, and I play opposite Lily Collins. It’s a pretty edgy intergalactic music video.

I was obsessed with Carol Burnett, Lily Tomlin; I watched ‘Mama’s Family’ religiously.

I think Katy B encapsulates young London in a way I never could. She reps London harder than anyone song-wise since Lily Allen.

The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love – the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.

I grew up idolizing Madeline Kahn and Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett, Ruth Gordon, Rosalind Russell, Amy Irving, women who were stylish and real actresses who did real work and could not be replaced with anyone else. You cannot cast anyone else in Madeline Kahn’s roles.

Then I became aware of the site as the traffic for it became higher. The most recent contact was this girl Lily. She wanted me to shoot her for the site and she actually showed up. There a lot of people who contact me to do a shoot for a website then you never hear from them.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

I’m a big fan of Lily Allen’s music, but I’m not a fan of her personality. I differentiate the two.