Top 100 Evangeline Lilly Quotes
#1. Your mind and soul are the kings of your physique way more than any exercise you do.
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#3. I have to have nature around me. I love the earth and this insanely beautiful creation that we live in. I just think it's to be marveled at and appreciated. It gives us life.
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#4. When I got old enough to date, I realized that Valentine's Day is just a commercial marketing scam to make men feel bad. So I let my boyfriends off the hook.
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#5. I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.
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#6. 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.
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#8. I know I can never work in a comedy because I can't keep a goddamn straight face.
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#9. I bought almost every single thing that I furnished my house with at the Salvation Army in Hawaii. All second hand. Some of them are kind of retro, and some of them you'd never know.
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#10. I decided I wanted to be a painter, and then that moved into wanting to be an animator. By adolescence, I just wanted it to be something that was important ... something that would make a difference in people's lives or leave an imprint in history.
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#11. If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricity - it would be style ... being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.
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#12. A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on 'Lost.'
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#13. Life is magically beautiful. And it brings you what is perfect.
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#14. I think my style is very eclectic, because I love so many different things. And, that's true, too, in almost every aspect of my life. I can go from really edgy to tailored and professional, and I just love to change things up.
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#15. I felt like I was a good woman, a good person. But I was sinking deeper and deeper into depression, because my soul wasn't living. I was purposely holding down my soul and my spirit. It was dying inside of me.
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#16. For a human audience, seeing things that are slightly more otherworldly and beyond human power is always really fun and exciting to watch.
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#17. My partner doesn't read. He's not illiterate - he just chooses not to read - and I love reading. I'm obsessed with reading.
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#18. I dance around my living room to cheesy '80s aerobics music until I'm sweating really hard!
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#19. My favorite parts about 'The Battle of Five Armies' were the moments where you could clearly see that we were looking at New Zealand. That it wasn't done in post, it wasn't CGI, it was the beautiful, incredible creation of Mother Nature in all of her splendor.
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#20. I am so glad that I get to maintain a relatively down-to-earth lifestyle.
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#21. That's what happens in Hollywood. People are like, 'I want to hate you, because everyone else seems to love you.' But the reality is this: I'm a simple person who's not interested in attention and who just wants to go about her business.
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#22. I'm surrounded by people who care about me and love me. I have a great job. I have wonderful roommates who take care of me. I have a family who adores me.
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#23. I'm allergic to Hawaii. Everything there makes me react in some way.
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#24. I think I'm not always what I seem. Most people, when they get to know me, say, 'You know, when I first met you ... ' People initially think I'm a snob because I'm intensely private.
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#25. I think women in Hollywood who don't do Botox and plastic surgery are revered. I revere them ... My plan is to never go there. I'm too vain to get plastic surgery because I don't like how it looks, and I want to look my best.
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#26. By rights, I should be an out-of-work actress because I just don't want it as badly as some people want it.
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#27. If you are not a clearly defined human being, it is very hard to define your image ... What I've realized in my own journey in fashion is that I'm not that defined.
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#28. There is a little bit of evil in all of us, and it's very easy to draw that out.
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#29. 'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.
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#30. 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.
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#31. I am five foot six, I am built of muscle and bone, and that is not very good for fashion, but it's who I am. Women who look good in fashion are six foot tall, don't have an ounce of muscle, and their legs are the size of my arm.
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#32. I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me.
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#33. 'Why are we here?' 'What is our purpose? 'Is there an afterlife?' 'Is there a God?' 'Is it all about science?' Those are big questions, and usually, TV is a little scared to go there.
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#35. I've not worked with Martin Freeman. I've hung out with him, but I've not worked with him.
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#36. When I was little, I attended five different elementary schools. My parents are very restless people, which is probably where I get my own nomadic lifestyle from.
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#37. I consider acting a day job - it's not my dream; it's not my be-all, end-all.
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#38. As an actress, and as a person, I really admire Diane Keaton. She's feisty, strong, beautiful and talented, and intelligent.
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#39. I am who I am and I am what I am. And it's beautiful. And it's okay even if it doesn't look like the sexiest Victoria Secret model. It also boils down to my interactions with people.
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#40. I'm not a highly social person. I'm a highly productive person.
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#41. 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.
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#42. Motherhood is a joy! I have dreamed about being a mother since I was 12 years old, and there's nothing disappointing about it.
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#43. The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life.
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#44. Somebody could take a picture of me from across the room, and I would feel like I wanted to rip their face off.
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#45. I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.
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#46. I just don't think that a lot of the time the messages we send kids prepare them for real life.
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#47. Peter Jackson has just really earned the right to be Tolkien's torchbearer on screen.
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#48. I would love to pretend I don't diet, but I work very hard. I stay active and eat very healthy. Anybody who says otherwise is either unhealthy or lying! I will admit that I'm addicted to sugar - licorice, Jujubees and jelly candies. And I actually love bran muffins!
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#49. I do love 'Star Wars,' although I'm not one of those crazy fans who knows everything about everyone.
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#50. As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you can't possibly please everyone.
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#52. 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.
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#53. If your home is peaceful, then you're going to go out in your day peacefully.
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#54. Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.
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#55. I think of the 'Hobbit' films as being films for the family.
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#56. 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.'
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#57. For me there's a need for balance - fulfilling the sensitive side, letting my guard down, holding back the warrior in me. And I have to be vulnerable which is very hard for me to do.
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#58. The reality is when you open a door, there is no sense in closing it - so I would never say, 'I'll never act again.' But it's definitely not my priority.
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#59. I have been a bit of a reluctant actress since the get-go, since the beginning of 'Lost.'
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#60. My home is my castle, and I spend a lot of time nurturing it, redecorating - moving this and adjusting that, adding flowers and candles.
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#63. When I act, I come away drained. When I write, I come away energized.
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#64. Life is all about embracing each moment that is given to you.
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#65. You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing at least one or two of them.
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#66. After about five hours of pushing, my midwife and my birthing assistant said, 'You know, we have a few suggestions.' And I was like, 'Really? After five hours of pushing you have a few suggestions? You couldn't have told me five minutes in?'
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#67. I don't want everyone to think of me as just 'that kid who called Jesse Jackson a communist in middle school.' That's why I decided to become a famous actress.
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#68. I'm the kind of person who, if I were living in another time, if I had to pick any time, I would probably be a pioneer. I just love the simplicity of what it means to work hard with your hands - to eat and survive.
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#69. There are some 'Star Treks' I love, and there are some I don't love.
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#70. I just wanted friends. I just wanted people to like me. I just wanted for things to be simple and good. So, for five years I actively sought out mediocrity.
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#71. I'm good at looking good with weapons and stunts. But if you put a bull's eye in front of me and asked me to hit it, I'd say the chances of me hitting it are about one in a million!
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#72. If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?
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#73. Even if you're unhappy, just pretend that you're happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that. I used to think, 'I'm being fake,' but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable.
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#74. To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.
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#75. I spent a lot of time in the clouds. Becoming a mother has really helped me put my feet on the ground and given me a very powerful sense of self and a powerful sense of priority in life.
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#76. I see kids and young adults walking the streets of L.A. with this enormous sense of entitlement, who seem to think that if they are basically good people and pay their bills, then the world will be good back to them. And I think life isn't always like that.
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#77. I haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!
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#78. Every other 16-year-old girl wanted to look at bridal magazines; I could not have been more bored with the notion.
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#79. It's so important for women to say to other women, 'I like myself how I am.' But it's hard because in your heart of hearts you are thinking, 'I don't really.' But you have to learn to say it. Imagine what a world it would be if people felt good about themselves the whole time.
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#80. I think doing a female Elf in the Woodland realm was a bit safer, because we haven't met one of those yet.
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#81. Ironically, when I hit adolescence, I was approached about modeling and acting all the time. And, for five years, I said, "No, I'm not interested. I want a simple life, I don't want to be in the spotlight."
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#82. I think one of the things that is easy to have happened in a superhero story is that the female character, whether she be a heroine or not, can often be the wart on the man.
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#84. In every one of the 'Squickerwonker' books, we will explore a new Squickerwonker character and their vice and how their vice generally leads to their undoing.
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#85. I used to cry myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered at and disrespected me.
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#86. '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.
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#87. Nature inspires us. Not being able to reach out and touch it, or see it, makes me get really antsy.
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#88. If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.
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#89. It's not your circumstances that make or break your day. It's your attitude!
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#90. It is a very frustrating thing to be the face of a creative project and yet essentially have zero creative control over that project. Essentially, you're a pawn in the system.
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#91. 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.
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#92. The world is full of opportunities, and I want to try as many as I possibly can.
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#93. 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.
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#95. One of the things that I miss about Canada is that even the strangers, you have an immediate rapport, there's just an understanding that we're all good people, let's be nice to each other. And Kiwis have that. I find the Kiwis have that.
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#96. On 'Ant-Man', I took a rubber stamp from the office of Hank Pym, who's played by Michael Douglas.
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#98. 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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#99. I had my baby outside in a thunderstorm. It was really romantic.
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#100. I'm from Canada, and New Zealand feels like you took all the best bits of Canada and squished them onto a tiny island like Hawaii. I was absolutely blown away by the beauty of the South Island.
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