I dance around my living room to cheesy ’80s aerobics music until I’m sweating really hard! – Evangeline Lilly
I lived in grass huts in a jungle in the Philippines for three weeks with tribal people. – Evangeline Lilly
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
If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying. – Evangeline Lilly
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. – Evangeline Lilly
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. – Evangeline Lilly
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.’ – Evangeline Lilly
I have been a bit of a reluctant actress since the get-go, since the beginning of ‘Lost.’ – Evangeline Lilly
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. – Evangeline Lilly
It would be amazing to play Sylvia Plath. She was so dark, and what came out of her writing was troubled and fierce. The dimensions, levels, layers and levels would be incredible to take on. – 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’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. – Evangeline Lilly
Peter Jackson has just really earned the right to be Tolkien’s torchbearer on screen. – 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
I’m a bit of a pick-pocket on-set. If something is small enough to go in my pocket, and it will be neat memorabilia, it’s gone. – Evangeline Lilly
I’m not a girl who needs to put on a whole face of make-up before I leave the house. – Evangeline Lilly
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. – Evangeline Lilly
My son was three months old when I started filming ‘The Hobbit,’ and I was still breastfeeding. – 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 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. – Evangeline Lilly
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. – Evangeline Lilly
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. – Evangeline Lilly
‘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. – Evangeline Lilly
