Top 100 Evangeline Lilly Quotes
#2. I tended to be a solitary young girl, and I still am. I would like to find a quiet corner and color in my coloring book. When I think back, I made that corner mine, not really caring about the rest of the house.
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#3. 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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#4. I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.
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#5. I consider acting a day job - it's not my dream; it's not my be-all, end-all.
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#6. '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.
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#7. I never developed hard cartilage in my ears because I played with them since I was a baby. I can fold my ear entirely inside out, and I can put the whole thing inside itself.
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#8. 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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#9. I've not worked with Martin Freeman. I've hung out with him, but I've not worked with him.
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#10. 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.
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#12. '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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#13. 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.'
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#14. 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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#15. I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me.
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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. A creative project is a moving target. You never end up where you start.
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#19. 'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.
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#20. The difference in my body from pre-pregnancy to post-baby was night and day. I didn't have the strength, I didn't have the flexibility, I didn't have the stamina, I didn't have the mobility. I felt like I was handicapped.
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#21. I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism' because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.
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#22. There is a little bit of evil in all of us, and it's very easy to draw that out.
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#23. 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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#24. There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil or sun, coal or wind, gas or algae, the economy will be stimulated by the investment. The economy, unlike each of us, is not swayed by ideology.
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#25. Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it's been an amazing experience. But I'm not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor.
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#26. Walking is a very underestimated exercise in North America. It's all run hard, lift weights and push your body, but walking is wonderful for elongating the body and posture.
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#27. 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.
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#28. I'm always changing things around. I have to change it all the time. I'm rearranging furniture and taking down paintings and putting up new ones, and buying new pieces of art.
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#29. I don't like the idea of playing a one-dimensional character who is just fearless, strong, and killer and has instincts and just thrives in dangerous circumstances - that's really boring to me, and I don't think it represents what most women feel inside.
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#30. I think of the 'Hobbit' films as being films for the family.
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#31. 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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#32. I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.
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#33. If your home is peaceful, then you're going to go out in your day peacefully.
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#34. 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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#36. 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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#37. I hated being a flight attendant. I did it for a month and then quit.
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#38. 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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#39. 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.
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#40. I do love 'Star Wars,' although I'm not one of those crazy fans who knows everything about everyone.
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#41. 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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#42. Peter Jackson has just really earned the right to be Tolkien's torchbearer on screen.
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#43. 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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#44. 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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#45. 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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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. 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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#49. I'm not a highly social person. I'm a highly productive person.
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#50. One of the great pleasures of working in Middle Earth is you get to be another being.
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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.
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#54. 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.
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#55. Life is magically beautiful. And it brings you what is perfect.
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#56. A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on 'Lost.'
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#57. 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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#58. 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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#59. 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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#60. 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.
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#61. I know I can never work in a comedy because I can't keep a goddamn straight face.
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#62. In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.
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#64. 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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#65. 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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#66. Believe me, there is nothing more rewarding than making Peter Jackson chuckle.
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#67. 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.
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#68. I try my very hardest to remember that I don't have to be anything but Evangeline. That's all that's expected of me. And if I try to be more or less, I will fall flat on my face. So if I just continue to hold my head high and keep myself in check, I'm being who I was born to be.
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#69. 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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#70. 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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#72. I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have sisters, so the women rule the coop in my house.
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#73. Your mind and soul are the kings of your physique way more than any exercise you do.
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#75. I've been astounded to discover how good to their teams and crew that Marvel are. They're so collaborative, so smart with their stories. They have rich, dynamic characters which are so much fun to play.
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#76. I am so glad that I get to maintain a relatively down-to-earth lifestyle.
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#77. I was a die-hard fan of these books [The Hobbit] before the films ever came out. And when I say die-hard, I wasn't the person who could speak Elvish, but I really loved them.
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#78. 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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#79. I don't know why, but the warmth and the comfort of flickering light help. And a fire, in the fireplace or on the beach, is very comforting. I think when you make something consistent and familiar, it helps. I light candles every single night in my home.
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#80. 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.
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#81. 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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#82. If you go back to, say, the Brothers Grimm or Roald Dahl, you see so much darkness in children's material.
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#84. 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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#85. I'm allergic to Hawaii. Everything there makes me react in some way.
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#86. 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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#87. 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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#88. We're not going to protect the Earth the way we need to protect it if we don't stop making so many babies.
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#89. My son was three months old when I started filming 'The Hobbit,' and I was still breastfeeding.
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#90. 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.
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#92. 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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#93. I dance around my living room to cheesy '80s aerobics music until I'm sweating really hard!
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#94. I do feel like I'm at ease in my own skin when I find an androgynous balance.
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#95. I have two roommates, so it's a challenge to keep the house the way I like.
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#96. 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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#97. I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.
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#98. I don't have the educated knowledge of what textures, colors, shapes and spaces need to be put together to make something just right. I'm learning it by trial and error, which is something that's slow going.
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#99. 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.
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#100. 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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