Evangeline Lilly Quotes
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Evangeline Lilly Quotes & Sayings
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My home is my castle, and I spend a lot of time nurturing it, redecorating - moving this and adjusting that, adding flowers and candles.
— Evangeline Lilly
I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.
— Evangeline Lilly
I'm very sensitive. Emotionally, I bruise very easily. I'm a Leo, and this is very characteristic of our sign.
— Evangeline Lilly
For a human audience, seeing things that are slightly more otherworldly and beyond human power is always really fun and exciting to watch.
— Evangeline Lilly
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.
— Evangeline Lilly
I dance around my living room to cheesy '80s aerobics music until I'm sweating really hard!
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My son is wonderful. He is amazing.
— Evangeline Lilly
Life is all about embracing each moment that is given to you.
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I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me.
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I've not worked with Martin Freeman. I've hung out with him, but I've not worked with him.
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I have been a bit of a reluctant actress since the get-go, since the beginning of 'Lost.'
— Evangeline Lilly
Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.
— Evangeline Lilly
I had my baby outside in a thunderstorm. It was really romantic.
— Evangeline Lilly
Life is magically beautiful. And it brings you what is perfect.
— Evangeline Lilly
We're not going to protect the Earth the way we need to protect it if we don't stop making so many babies.
— Evangeline Lilly
My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's the only place in the house that has a beautiful lush shag rug, which is my favorite.
— Evangeline Lilly
I am so glad that I get to maintain a relatively down-to-earth lifestyle.
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I am a classy dame.
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When I act, I come away drained. When I write, I come away energized.
— Evangeline Lilly
In high school, people wanted to find the worst in me.
— Evangeline Lilly
That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.
— Evangeline Lilly
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.
— Evangeline Lilly
If one day a TV series comes into my head, and that is what I want to write, I'll write it. It just depends what story is in my brain at the time.
— Evangeline Lilly
My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished.
— Evangeline Lilly
Nature inspires us. Not being able to reach out and touch it, or see it, makes me get really antsy.
— Evangeline Lilly
Peter Jackson has just really earned the right to be Tolkien's torchbearer on screen.
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I changed jobs like I changed shirts. It was something I just like to do - I like trying my hand at everything.
— Evangeline Lilly
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.
— Evangeline Lilly
I love the creative end of acting. But I hate fame.
— Evangeline Lilly
I just like short hair on women; I think it's cool.
— Evangeline Lilly
I love getting older!
— Evangeline Lilly
There are some 'Star Treks' I love, and there are some I don't love.
— Evangeline Lilly
'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.
— Evangeline Lilly
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.
— Evangeline Lilly
I'm not a girl who needs to put on a whole face of make-up before I leave the house.
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My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.
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I hated being a flight attendant. I did it for a month and then quit.
— Evangeline Lilly
I love being outside - that's where I'm the happiest.
— Evangeline Lilly
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.
— Evangeline Lilly
Somebody could take a picture of me from across the room, and I would feel like I wanted to rip their face off.
— Evangeline Lilly
I don't want to just model. Anyone can do that. I've let myself be in magazines in the past without participating as much as I should have.
— Evangeline Lilly
'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.
— Evangeline Lilly
I do love 'Star Wars,' although I'm not one of those crazy fans who knows everything about everyone.
— Evangeline Lilly
If you watch a film from beginning to end, with no women in it, it's really difficult.
— Evangeline Lilly
My son was three months old when I started filming 'The Hobbit,' and I was still breastfeeding.
— Evangeline Lilly
I know I can never work in a comedy because I can't keep a goddamn straight face.
— Evangeline Lilly
If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.
— Evangeline Lilly
I used to cry myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered at and disrespected me.
— Evangeline Lilly
I've been careful what I've put my name to.
— Evangeline Lilly
I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.
— Evangeline Lilly
On 'Ant-Man', I took a rubber stamp from the office of Hank Pym, who's played by Michael Douglas.
— Evangeline Lilly
There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.
— Evangeline Lilly
In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.
— Evangeline Lilly
One of the great pleasures of working in Middle Earth is you get to be another being.
— Evangeline Lilly
Every woman is after a kind of classy image.
— Evangeline Lilly
A creative project is a moving target. You never end up where you start.
— Evangeline Lilly
If you go back to, say, the Brothers Grimm or Roald Dahl, you see so much darkness in children's material.
— Evangeline Lilly
'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.
— Evangeline Lilly
As an actress, and as a person, I really admire Diane Keaton. She's feisty, strong, beautiful and talented, and intelligent.
— Evangeline Lilly
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.
— Evangeline Lilly
I am an opportunist. When opportunities come, and I see them serving my grander goals in life, I take them.
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I'm an actress, but I'm not stupid.
— Evangeline Lilly
It's not your circumstances that make or break your day. It's your attitude!
— Evangeline Lilly
I lived in grass huts in a jungle in the Philippines for three weeks with tribal people.
— Evangeline Lilly
I love my home. It's the only thing I really spend money on. I don't really spend a lot of money on anything else. No fancy cars. No designer clothes.
— Evangeline Lilly
I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.
— Evangeline Lilly
I think of the 'Hobbit' films as being films for the family.
— Evangeline Lilly
I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.
— Evangeline Lilly
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.
— Evangeline Lilly
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.
— Evangeline Lilly
I definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance.
— Evangeline Lilly
I'm a pretty skeptical person, and I'm a realistic person.
— Evangeline Lilly
A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on 'Lost.'
— Evangeline Lilly
I seem to be landing really great locations on a lot of my work. I hope that continues, knock on wood.
— Evangeline Lilly
Diets are a fool's errand.
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It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.
— Evangeline Lilly
If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.
— Evangeline Lilly
I have two roommates, so it's a challenge to keep the house the way I like.
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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.
— Evangeline Lilly
I always wear something slightly masculine.
— Evangeline Lilly
I'm a bit of a pick-pocket on-set. If something is small enough to go in my pocket, and it will be neat memorabilia, it's gone.
— Evangeline Lilly
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.
— Evangeline Lilly
Your mind and soul are the kings of your physique way more than any exercise you do.
— Evangeline Lilly
By rights, I should be an out-of-work actress because I just don't want it as badly as some people want it.
— Evangeline Lilly
Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.
— Evangeline Lilly
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.
— Evangeline Lilly
Every night I bring home flowers and burn candles. And I have a real sense that home is what starts everything inside of you.
— Evangeline Lilly
I don't watch TV. When people at my house try to talk about TV, I'm like, 'Ah, I have no idea what I'm talking about.'
— Evangeline Lilly
I'm allergic to Hawaii. Everything there makes me react in some way.
— Evangeline Lilly
I just don't think that a lot of the time the messages we send kids prepare them for real life.
— Evangeline Lilly
What I wanted originally was six kids.
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Outside of acting, the person that I admire the most is my mother.
— Evangeline Lilly
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.
— Evangeline Lilly