110+ Evangeline Lilly Quotes On Friendship, Lost And Smallville

Evangeline Lilly is a Canadian actress, best known for her roles as Kate Austen in the ABC series Lost, and as the elf Tauriel in The Hobbit film trilogy. She has also appeared in films such as The Hurt Locker, Real Steel, and Ant-Man and the Wasp. She is also an author, having published her first book, The Squickerwonkers, in 2015. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Evangeline Lilly on life, love, leadership.

Top 10 Evangeline Lilly Quotes

1. I have two roommates, so it's a challenge to keep the house the way I like.
2. 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?
3. It's not your circumstances that make or break your day. It's your attitude!
4. I just like short hair on women; I think its cool.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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 Short Quotes

• As I grew older, I developed a very innate passion for art. I was actually pretty good at it.
• I always wear something slightly masculine.
• If your home is peaceful, then you're going to go out in your day peacefully.
• I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.
• I am so glad that I get to maintain a relatively down-to-earth lifestyle.
• Nature inspires us. Not being able to reach out and touch it, or see it, makes me get really antsy.
• If you watch a film from beginning to end, with no women in it, it's really difficult.
• I haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!
• I know I can never work in a comedy because I can't keep a goddamn straight face.
• There is a little bit of evil in all of us, and it's very easy to draw that out.

Evangeline Lilly Quotes About Life

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. — Evangeline Lilly

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." — Evangeline Lilly

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. — 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

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. — Evangeline Lilly

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

Evangeline Lilly Quotes About Love

I love the creative end of acting. But I hate fame. — Evangeline Lilly

Truthfully, I love being in the jungle. I love it when the make-up artists come to set, they come equipped with dirt and sweat. I spend my days climbing trees and I can crawl out of bed and walk on set and that's exactly all I have to look like. — 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 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. — Evangeline Lilly

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! — Evangeline Lilly

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. — Evangeline Lilly

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

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

I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s. — Evangeline Lilly

Evangeline Lilly Quotes About Acting

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

Outside of acting, the person that I admire the most is my mother. — Evangeline Lilly

Originally, I wanted to do humanitarian work. I actually feel that getting into acting, which fate has led me to, is my window and path into humanitarian work. I always said I want to do something important. And I feel this work is what's helping me get there. — Evangeline Lilly

I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting. — Evangeline Lilly

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

Evangeline Lilly Famous Quotes And Sayings

I think that being isolated from the Hollywood world of premieres and red carpet events was probably good for me because I could ease into those at will and by my own choice. But in other aspects, when it comes to fanfare, Hawaii is nuts and in L.A. they're all so jaded. They don't care. — Evangeline Lilly

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. — Evangeline Lilly

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. — Evangeline Lilly

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. — Evangeline Lilly

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. — Evangeline Lilly

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. — Evangeline Lilly

When I pick a role, one of the things that I aspire to is that somebody's parent will come up to me after the film has come out and say, "My daughter idealizes that character. You're her hero." That's what I aim for. We're in the business of making heroes. — Evangeline Lilly

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

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. — Evangeline Lilly

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. — Evangeline Lilly

I read every single letter. Some just break my heart. I've cried over letters that have come in, from young women and older women alike, saying to me, "You know, you made me want to stop crash dieting and just be healthy. You are my role model. I want to be like you." — 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 think doing a female Elf in the Woodland realm was a bit safer, because we haven't met one of those yet. — Evangeline Lilly

When I am doing things around the house - when I'm decorating, setting up furniture, putting out a vase of flowers, lighting my candles, my mind is always thinking, "What do I need to do to make this space peaceful and restful and comfortable so that when people walk into it, aesthetically they're heightened and enlightened?" — 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

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. — Evangeline Lilly

I've had to find my sanity. — Evangeline Lilly

People initially think I'm a snob because I'm intensely private. — Evangeline Lilly

I can still go grocery shopping and not get mobbed. But when I was in South Africa this summer, I had people asking for autographs, and that scared me. — 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

The world is full of opportunities, and I want to try as many as I possibly can. — 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

I think men don't know what they want, so the idea of not knowing what they're getting makes it a little easier on them. — Evangeline Lilly

I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of grandeur and importance, and I wanted to be mediocre. — Evangeline Lilly

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. — Evangeline Lilly

I just like short hair on women, I think it's cool. And I have wanted to cut my hair for very many years, but being on contract with a television show for six years prevents you from doing that, and then being on contract with a cosmetic endorsement campaign prevents you from doing that again. So for eight years, I've had to have long, flowing locks. And I was just so sick and tired of long, flowing locks, so I chopped them. — 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 like to be around people who make me laugh. It's one of my favorite things on a set. I hate it when people take themselves serious in a film set. — Evangeline Lilly

I was fortunate enough to be one of those stories where I was scouted on the street by somebody and actually refused to go to the agency, and was approached on different occasions and finally kind of caved and said, 'OK, I'll try it and see what happens. — Evangeline Lilly

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

My character is different from all of the Elves you've met before, in that she's really young. And I keep telling journalists this because I've really focused on that in my performance. I'm trying to distinguish her from all of these incredibly sage and wise Elves that have lived for thousands of years. — Evangeline Lilly

I am kind of prudish and I have very strict standards about how I present myself. But one of the things that I've always stood by is that women are beautiful and sexy. We shouldn't be afraid of that. [But] we need to make sure that we present that beauty and that sexiness in a way that says we are in control of our bodies. We're strong, we're classy, we're beautiful, powerful beings to be reckoned with, not victims. — Evangeline Lilly

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. — Evangeline Lilly

A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on Lost. — 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

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. — Evangeline Lilly

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. — 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 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. — Evangeline Lilly

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. — Evangeline Lilly

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. — Evangeline Lilly

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

Even though I'm resting I'm accomplishing something by sewing that shirt that I've been meaning to sew for weeks. And it's relaxing. It's so very meditative and quiet and enjoyable. But at least I'm producing something. I'm being productive in some way. I have a very hard time being completely idle. — Evangeline Lilly

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. — Evangeline Lilly

I got called and was told, "We'd like you to do The Hobbit", which was my favorite of all of them when I was a kid - "And we want you to play a character that's not in the books", I gulped and hesitated, but then I went, "These guys know this world, and they represent this world so well, that I actually think they've earned the right to have a little play." — 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

To impress me, a guy has to be completely unaffected by my presence. If he wants to talk to me, talk to me; if he doesn't, don't. — 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

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

My introduction into Marvel world was Comic-Con 2014 where I really had to take a step back and go, 'What have I walked into? What is this place? It's wild, and there's all these crazy rockstars walking around - who are all older than me, which was really weird. I was like, 'I feel too old to be in a superhero movie,' and they're like 10 years older than me. — Evangeline Lilly

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. — Evangeline Lilly

I don't know if any of you feel this way, but it's like eventually, you see a woman come on screen and you go, "Oh, thank God!" You just sort of need a break from all this testosterone, which happened, I think, in one of my films, The Hurt Locker. I was in it for like five minutes, and people were like, "You were in that movie!" And I was like, "Well, kind of." And they were like, "No, you were!" 'Cause they needed a woman! — 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

The directors did an amazing job and Josh Holloway is just he's just shining. I think that, of the people I started working with, he's one of the people I'm most impressed with. How he's grown and learned and he's been just stunning everyone with his performances. — 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 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. — Evangeline Lilly

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. — Evangeline Lilly

I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me, because they assumed things about my mental capacity or my physical willingness based on the way I look. — Evangeline Lilly

I like ambiguity. I think it's so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person. — Evangeline Lilly

My valentine is always my dad. — Evangeline Lilly

Diets are a fool’s errand. I eat something sweet every day, whether it’s chocolate or a cookie. If I don’t, I guarantee you that there’s going to be a day every week when I’m going to stuff myself, especially if it’s PMS time. — Evangeline Lilly

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. — Evangeline Lilly

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

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. — 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

Every woman is after a kind of classy image. — Evangeline Lilly

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. — Evangeline Lilly

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. — Evangeline Lilly

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

Money is the longest route to happiness. — Evangeline Lilly

I think I'm not always what I seem. — Evangeline Lilly

Life Lessons by Evangeline Lilly

1. Evangeline Lilly is a great example of how hard work and dedication can lead to success. She has worked her way up from small roles to becoming a leading actress in Hollywood.
2. Evangeline Lilly also shows that it is possible to have a successful career while still staying true to your values and beliefs. She has spoken out against sexism and racism in the industry and has been a strong advocate for the environment.
3. Finally, Evangeline Lilly is a great role model for young women, showing them that they can achieve their dreams if they are willing to put in the effort and dedication.