Evangeline Lilly Quotes

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 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.

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

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

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.

I wasn't actually going to see the original film [Lord of the Ring], because I didn't think it was possible that a film could represent the books appropriately. So I was protesting, and I wasn't going to see them. And then my family all took a jaunt together, the entire family, to see the movies, and were like, "What, you're just going to stay home?" So I saw the movies and was thoroughly impressed that Peter Jackson managed to make my vision of the book come to life, as well as my sister's and my father's, and my aunt's and my uncle's, everyone's.

My valentine is always my dad.

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.

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 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.

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.

I think I'm not always what I seem.

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.

I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.

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

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

My home is my castle, and I spend a lot of time nurturing it, redecorating - moving this and adjusting that, adding flowers and candles.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Every woman is after a kind of classy image.

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