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Evangeline Lilly Quotes

If you go back to, say, the Brothers Grimm or Roald Dahl, you see so much darkness in children’s material.

– Evangeline Lilly

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.

– Evangeline Lilly

‘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.

– 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

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.

– Evangeline Lilly

I seem to be landing really great locations on a lot of my work. I hope that continues, knock on wood.

– Evangeline Lilly

We decided to have the baby at home because we wanted it to be a natural birth, and it turns out that it was 30 hours of natural. Eight hours of pushing – that’s the part that men don’t understand. Women go, ‘Oh, dear, oh, dear God, eight hours of pushing?’ And the men are like, ‘Okay, eight hours of pushing.’

– 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

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 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.

– Evangeline Lilly

I used to cry myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered at and disrespected me.

– Evangeline Lilly

Life is magically beautiful. And it brings you what is perfect.

– Evangeline Lilly

I haven’t sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!

– Evangeline Lilly

I love to dance. Don’t get me started, because you will never get me to stop.

– Evangeline Lilly

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?’

– Evangeline Lilly

I’m allergic to Hawaii. Everything there makes me react in some way.

– Evangeline Lilly

If you’re going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

– 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

Believe me, there is nothing more rewarding than making Peter Jackson chuckle.

– Evangeline Lilly

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.

– Evangeline Lilly

Motherhood is a joy! I have dreamed about being a mother since I was 12 years old, and there’s nothing disappointing about it.

– Evangeline Lilly

I hated being a flight attendant. I did it for a month and then quit.

– Evangeline Lilly

There are so many roles on TV that I don’t covet. I see them, and I’m glad I don’t have to play them.

– Evangeline Lilly

What I wanted originally was six kids.

– Evangeline Lilly

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.

– Evangeline Lilly

Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.

– Evangeline Lilly

One of the things that I miss about Canada is that even the strangers, you have an immediate rapport, there’s just an understanding that we’re all good people, let’s be nice to each other. And Kiwis have that. I find the Kiwis have that.

– Evangeline Lilly

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.

– Evangeline Lilly

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

– Evangeline Lilly

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.

– Evangeline Lilly

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