A biography for Evangeline Lillyhasn’t been written yet.
“Every woman is after a kind of classy image.”
“I think of the 'Hobbit' films as being films for the family.”
“For a human audience, seeing things that are slightly more otherworldly and beyond human power is always really fun and exciting to watch.”
“I don't want to shield kids from reality.”
“I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.”
“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.”
“I'm a good Canadian girl. I miss all that good stuff. I miss tobogganing and I miss snowboarding, but I've also learned to surf and I've become a water baby which I used to be relatively terrified of the water and I kayak all the time now and I'm able to run year round on the beach which you can't obviously do in Canada.”
“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 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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There are some 'Star Treks' I love, and there are some I don't love.”
“It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.”
“A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on 'Lost.'”
“We're not going to protect the Earth the way we need to protect it if we don't stop making so many babies.”
“I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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?'”