Quotes from Blake Lively

I love being at home and cooking and baking.

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

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 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.

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.

I think baking is an incredible thing; cooking in general is an incredible thing.

Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies.

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

I love scuba diving. I'm an avid diver. And, there's this beautiful world that's more incredible than any CGI film we could ever make, that we're destroying, for what? It's heartbreaking to me.

I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them.

I feel shy when people are fussing on me.

Honestly, I am a shy person.

Honestly, I'm so sick of myself.

People think I'm goofy. I don't have that Angelina Jolie air to me. I wish that I did, and that's an insecurity of mine.

So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.

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.

My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy.

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.

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

If I could pass along anything that my mother or my sisters taught me, I feel like my kids would be very well off.

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

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 take a cooking class everywhere I travel. I find it's the best way to get to know a culture.

My anonymity is something I treasure.