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

Evangeline Lilly

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

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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.

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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.

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I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.

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I'm an actress, but I'm not stupid.

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I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.

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I'm a pretty skeptical person, and I'm a realistic person.

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I've had to find my sanity.

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I've been careful what I've put my name to.

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I'm not a girl who needs to put on a whole face of make-up before I leave the house.

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

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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.

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I'm not a highly social person. I'm a highly productive person.

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I've not worked with Martin Freeman. I've hung out with him, but I've not worked with him.

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It's very difficult to play opposite nothing. I did it for, like, six years - I ran from an invisible smoke monster for most of my twenties.

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In my world, I don't believe in forever promises. I don't think it's realistic.

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In high school, people wanted to find the worst in me.

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

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If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.

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It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

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Author Bio

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