Has declared that she has accepted her "Gossip Girl" (2007) co-star Penn Badgley aback she was 11 years old.
She was complex in a lot of activities at her aerial academy including: cheerleading, choir, and apprentice government. She was chic president.
Ranked #43 on the Maxim annual Hot 100 of 2008 list.
On "Live! with Kelly" (1988), she declared that her earlier brother didn't demand to go to academy abandoned aback it came time for him to be in the 1st grade. At the time, she was three but actual alpine for her age. Her mother aria and said Blake was 6. Blake abounding 1st brand and the academy appear that she was "slow" when, in reality, she was 3 and couldn't allocution actual well. She claims it fabricated her brother happy, so she was happy.
Has declared that she is rather cocky acquainted about actuality tall. (She's a little over 5'10".) So abundant so, that she absolutely dislikes cutting heels.
Lively was called by artist Karl Lagerfeld as the "face" of Chanel's new "Mademoiselle" backpack band on the January 5, 2011. The ad campaign, attempt by Lagerfeld, is accepted to premiere mid-March, 2011.
Ranked #30 in the 2011 FHM Australia account of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".
Ranked as accepting one of "The Best Beautiful Faces" by "The Annual Independent Critics Account of the 100 Best Beautiful Acclaimed Faces From About the World." She was ranked #39 in 2010, #68 in 2009, and #85 in 2008.
Personal Quotes
My accomplished family's been in the business. My accomplished ancestors is crazy.
(About filming animated scenes on "Gossip Girl" (2007)) It's the best awkward thing! There's a allowance of 40 bodies watching you, they're cogent you absolutely how to move your head, and it's absolutely silent. It's awful!
In aerial school, there are so abounding cliques. You're never safe. In amid my inferior and chief years, I went abroad to blur The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005), and I came aback accessible to do the things with my accompany that we consistently did, but things change. Bodies get older, and there are some central jokes that you don't apperceive about that accept happened. You feel absent for a while, and it's adamantine to appear aback from that. Again the accompany who accept "replaced" you are territorial. I've accomplished that a little bit. There are catty, insecure, and communicative girls everywhere, but for me, I don't anticipate it's a amount of any of them actuality absolutely bad at heart. I aloof anticipate that maybe the altered means in which bodies are aloft accomplish them altered and insecure. They point out the bad things in others aloof to accomplish themselves feel better. It's everywhere.
(After affective to New York to blur "Gossip Girl" (2007)) I was aloft in California, so this accomplished New York winter affair is absolutely new for me. I've already justified affairs seven coats!
I've kissed aloof three bodies in my life, added than actuality I accept done for TV or movies. I know, I'm weird! I achievement Brad Pitt doesn't apprehend this, he is never activity to demand to ally me!
I'm on a actual bartering appearance ["Gossip Girl" (2007)], so the aftermost affair I demand to do is a bartering movie. I wanna booty risks, I don't wanna comedy it safe. I mean, I could apparently accomplish added money if I did added bartering projects. It would be nice to buy an apartment, but I'm 22, and I don't charge to yet.
I demand to accept a brunch place, a bakery, and a Southern restaurant - because my family's from Georgia - and again I demand a abode that is all-over-the-world cuisine. I booty a affable chic everywhere I travel. I acquisition it's the best way to get to apperceive a culture. It's what bodies accompany to the ancestors every day, what they breach aliment over - it's a actual affectionate thing.
[on how she deals with any astriction amid assignment and annihilation else] - I adulation what I do. I adulation my work. So, you know, of advance I capital to be at the premiere [of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)], but I had a job to do, and so I had to be on the set in Boston and be a allotment of it. At the end of the day, a premiere is a premiere. It's not somebody active or dying. So for me, this added actuality - well, the allowances is not the acumen I do the job. Couture appearance week, accepting to accommodated Karl Lagerfeld and John Galliano and Christian Louboutin is so exciting. It's like actuality a little babe and attractive at these designers saying, "Can you brainstorm one day seeing all of those brawl gowns?" But, at the end of the day, I wouldn't be there after my job. There are a few things in activity that amount aloft all else: your family, your friends, your admired ones. But aggregate abroad comes and goes - abnormally in this business area aggregate is so of the moment.
[on area her aptitude in acting comes from] - I don't know. I anticipate it comes from the actuality that I never absolutely anticipation about acting as a child. It wasn't like, "This is the career that I demand to pursue." So aback I aboriginal started acting, I was added anxious with aloof actuality on a set and all of the woes of that, and I didn't absolutely apperceive it or accept it as a ability yet. Aback I saw my aboriginal movie, I was fine, but I thought, "Oh, my heavens. It's not about aloof continuing there on my mark and adage these lines. I charge to absolutely act." It was abundant to accept my aboriginal befalling be such a big role, but additionally not abundant because all of the mistakes I made-the absolute acquirements action was on the big awning for anybody to see. That's been something, cine by movie, that I've been able to abound and apprentice from-that I consistently charge to assignment harder to be bigger because it's still a new ability for me. ... I aloof did it on my own. I've never formed with an acting coach, but my parents had acting classes and I grew up about them my accomplished activity aloof because I didn't accept a babysitter. I'm absolutely a actual shy person-that's a big secret, so don't tell-but actuality in those classes pushed me to breach out of that a little bit. It's like attributes against nurture: I'm artlessly actual shy, but I was brought up in a way area I had to get up and get out of that.
Yeah, I don't animadversion on my relationships... My anonymity is article I treasure. Absent to be an amateur and absent to be acclaimed are different.
With acting, I anticipate bisected of it is aloof acting confident. We angle on these red carpets and affectation in these dresses, but we're all alone so confident. It doesn't beggarly we anticipate we're abundant attractive or anything. It's all a façade.
