Quotes by Evangeline Lilly

About Evangeline Lilly:

Nicole Evangeline Lilly is a Canadian actress and author. She won a Screen Actors Guild Award and received a Golden Globe nomination for her role as Kate Austen in the ABC series Lost (2004-2010). She is also known for her roles in films such as the psychological thriller Afterwards (2008), the war film The Hurt Locker (2008), and the sci-fi sports drama film Real Steel (2011). She played an Elf, Tauriel, in the fantasy adventure series The Hobbit and Hope van Dyne in the superhero film Ant-Man.
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Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.

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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.

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My son is wonderful. He is amazing.

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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.

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Wonder Woman was my favorite superhero as a little girl. I still have a huge girl crush on Wonder Woman; I think she's amazing.

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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.

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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?

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For a human audience, seeing things that are slightly more otherworldly and beyond human power is always really fun and exciting to watch.

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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.

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

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I think of the 'Hobbit' films as being films for the family.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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I just like short hair on women; I think it's cool.

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I have an American son and an American partner, so marriage might logistically make sense at one point. My partner is a stay-at-home father, so if he wants to be on my health plan, or tax wise, or maybe on paper we want to have our I's dotted and our...

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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.

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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.

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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 influe...

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Author Bio

  • NameEvangeline Lilly
  • DescriptionCanadian actress
  • BornAugust 3, 1979
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionActor; Model