Explore Quotes by Blake Lively

I love layering things. Fall is my favorite time of the year to get dressed.

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.

I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was broken, and she'd preserve it.

Family is at the heart of everything I do.

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.

I liken myself to a little girl having a tea party at the house all of the time. I actually dress up more in my home than I do walking down the street just because it is so much fun to play dress up.

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 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 can read a four-page scene once and have it memorized. It's a skill you learn in school: disposable cramming.

My greatest passion is my personal life.

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

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.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

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 love to photograph the gorgeous landscapes when I travel.

I was class president, on the cheerleading squad, in a competitive show choir, and in, like, six different clubs.

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

I'll go to an event wearing some designer gown and tens of thousands of dollars in jewels that were lent to me for the night, and I'll walk around and meet people who I always thought were such a big deal.

I think I'll always flutter all over. I'd like to live in different parts of the world - I'd love to live in Tuscany for a few months.

There have been so many things written about me that are untrue and horrifying.

There is something about New Orleans that embodies passion; I've never seen that before. There's something tangible about the essence of the city. You can taste and smell it.