Evangeline Lilly Quotes

I have two roommates, so it's a challenge to keep the house the way I like.

If Americans could choose, would they choose to work on the infrastructure for cancer-causing oil power or would they choose to work on the infrastructure for health-reviving wind power?

It's not your circumstances that make or break your day. It's your attitude!

I just like short hair on women; I think its cool.

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'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.

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.

There is a little bit of evil in all of us, and it's very easy to draw that out.

I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me.

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.

When I got the job on 'Lost,' I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea.

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.

In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.

I always wear something slightly masculine.

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 cant possibly please everyone.

Every woman is after a kind of classy image.

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.

I love being outside - that's where I'm the happiest.

When I was young I was soft spoken and a little bit timid and passive. My dream then was to be a ballerina or a figure skater - something very delicate.

As I grew older, I developed a very innate passion for art. I was actually pretty good at it.

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

Every night I bring home flowers and burn candles. And I have a real sense that home is what starts everything inside of you.

I love the creative end of acting. But I hate fame.

If your home is peaceful, then you're going to go out in your day peacefully.

I think doing a female Elf in the Woodland realm was a bit safer, because we haven't met one of those yet.

I am so glad that I get to maintain a relatively down-to-earth lifestyle.

I started to do everything I could to succeed, but found that the more successful I became, the less people liked me.

My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's the only place in the house that has a beautiful lush shag rug, which is my favorite.

I've had boyfriends complain, "Wait, you don't want to see me?" No, I don't. I just want to hang out by myself. So screw off.

I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.

My valentine is always my dad.

I definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance.

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.

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.

As an actress, and as a person, I really admire Diane Keaton. She's feisty, strong, beautiful and talented, and intelligent.

If you watch a film from beginning to end, with no women in it, it's really difficult.

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.

I changed jobs like I changed shirts. It was something I just like to do - I like trying my hand at everything.

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.

I'm very sensitive. Emotionally, I bruise very easily. I'm a Leo, and this is very characteristic of our sign.

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.

Nature inspires us. Not being able to reach out and touch it, or see it, makes me get really antsy.

I consider acting a day job - it's not my dream; it's not my be-all, end-all.

That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.

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.

One of the great pleasures of working in Middle Earth is you get to be another being.

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.

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 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.