Evangeline Lilly Quotes
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Evangeline Lilly Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I'm very sensitive. Emotionally, I bruise very easily. I'm a Leo, and this is very characteristic of our sign.
I started to do everything I could to succeed, but found that the more successful I became, the less people liked me.
For a human audience, seeing things that are slightly more otherworldly and beyond human power is always really fun and exciting to watch.
I just really like ants, and I really like science. I was interested and curious about the quantum world and the physics behind how it all works.
When I hear the words 'Women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen,' I think, 'What. A. Dream.' There are no negative connotations to it.
I think I can allow myself one child - and from then on, I think I would have to adopt. It makes sense not to add to the population problem.
Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.
We're not going to protect the Earth the way we need to protect it if we don't stop making so many babies.
My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's the only place in the house that has a beautiful lush shag rug, which is my favorite.
It's very difficult to play opposite nothing. I did it for, like, six years - I ran from an invisible smoke monster for most of my twenties.
That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.
I adore having people over to my home. My number one reason I love that is because I love to see people at ease with each other.
Motherhood is a joy! I have dreamed about being a mother since I was 12 years old, and there's nothing disappointing about it.
There's a massive part of me that can be bold and courageous ... very strong and very assertive and independent, almost to a fault sometimes.
'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.
I say no to photographs. When people take my picture, I feel like they've taken a piece of me, and I can't get that back. It's soul-draining.
I used to cry myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered at and disrespected me.
I like ambiguity. I think it's so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person.
In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.
Every other 16-year-old girl wanted to look at bridal magazines; I could not have been more bored with the notion.
If you go back to, say, the Brothers Grimm or Roald Dahl, you see so much darkness in children's material.
I think doing a female Elf in the Woodland realm was a bit safer, because we haven't met one of those yet.
'The Squickerwonkers' was the story I wrote when I was on 'The Hobbit.' And I brought it to Comic-Con and sold out a thousand copies I had printed.
I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.
There are so many roles on TV that I don't covet. I see them, and I'm glad I don't have to play them.
Saying 'no' is not hard for me; it's scarier for me to say 'yes.' I'm actually more afraid of commitment than of saying 'no.'
I eventually want to come back to Canada, to disappear, have nobody know me, and just be a writer and do what I want to do.
I have these huge, pointed ears. They're like three times the size of Orlando Bloom's ears. And I think he has ear envy, I love my ears.
The way I've been able to embrace fame is by realizing that celebrity is just a means to send whatever message you want out into the world.
I am an opportunist. When opportunities come, and I see them serving my grander goals in life, I take them.
As an actress, and as a person, I really admire Diane Keaton. She's feisty, strong, beautiful and talented, and intelligent.
I didn't grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn't watch TV. We didn't have a lot of magazines around.
I seem to be landing really great locations on a lot of my work. I hope that continues, knock on wood.
'Real Steel' was this lovely little piece where I held a cup of coffee and talked to Hugh Jackman for three weeks. And that sounded kind of nice.
I do love 'Star Wars,' although I'm not one of those crazy fans who knows everything about everyone.
I'm very picky when it comes to men. I come across a man who I'm really attracted to about once every five years.
I like fantasy. I like worlds where sometimes you need the special effects to make it come alive, but it's not so fun acting it.
By rights, I should be an out-of-work actress because I just don't want it as badly as some people want it.
Wonder Woman was my favorite superhero as a little girl. I still have a huge girl crush on Wonder Woman; I think she's amazing.
Somebody could take a picture of me from across the room, and I would feel like I wanted to rip their face off.
Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.
I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was ... my favorite book as a little girl, and the Silvan Elves were my favorite characters in the book.