Jillian Hervey Quotes

In New York everyone just kind of knows each other.

Basically, my senior year of high school, I was going to look at prospective colleges and I went to visit Northeastern University because one of my friends was going.

It's so important to embrace what you have because if you don't, that can be the root of very self-destructive habits, which I think people waste a lot of energy on.

I think the world tries to put people in a box, like this is the only appropriate way to be beautiful.

I think growing up, you just deal with 'I'm ugly,' or 'I don't look right,' or 'my hair is wrong,' and it's such a distraction from what can really elevate you.

I feel like my dad was the more artistic one, creating his own thing, loving to be around people, and all this stuff, doing exciting things, and my mom was more of the performer.

You know, you always want to just do your own thing - I mean some people want to be exactly like their parents - Ibut I wanted to do my own thing and I ended up doing a kind of mix of my mom and dad.

We [in my family] don't like to mess around and talk about our problems or complain, it's just not anything that we do.

Architects see the world a certain way, and cooks see and smell the world a certain way. [Dancing ] is always been my lens, what I use to see.

Now, it's so sacred. It's how I see the world. I can't help but look at people, their physicality, and how they move. It's how I see everything.

There's so many people that I feel like as soon as that happens, they can really be and focus on what they want to do.

There are probably still people that are competitive with each other, but I don't feel that's necessary. I like when we lift each other up.

I've never seen the allure of being famous, because I know what that's like. It's part of work.

One of my favorite things from my mom is a chocolate brown three-piece Chanel outfit. I had it tailored because she taught me the importance of fit.

My mom has always just been one of those people who handle adversity and challenges, and really everything, with so much grace and elegance. I saw it all the time.

We travel so much, I never adjust to time zones any more.