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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My son was three months old when I started filming 'The Hobbit,' and I was still breastfeeding.

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Peter Jackson has just really earned the right to be Tolkien's torchbearer on screen.

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'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.

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Somebody could take a picture of me from across the room, and I would feel like I wanted to rip their face off.

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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.

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On 'Ant-Man', I took a rubber stamp from the office of Hank Pym, who's played by Michael Douglas.

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There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.

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Saying 'no' is not hard for me; it's scarier for me to say 'yes.' I'm actually more afraid of commitment than of saying 'no.'

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There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil or sun, coal or wind, gas or algae, the economy will be stimulated by the investment. The economy, unlike each of us, is not swayed by ideology.

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When I was a little girl, I dreamed of being an elf.

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What I wanted originally was six kids.

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We're not going to protect the Earth the way we need to protect it if we don't stop making so many babies.

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When I act, I come away drained. When I write, I come away energized.

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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 happ...

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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.

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In every one of the 'Squickerwonker' books, we will explore a new Squickerwonker character and their vice and how their vice generally leads to their undoing.

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If you are not a clearly defined human being, it is very hard to define your image... What I've realized in my own journey in fashion is that I'm not that defined.

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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.

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When I was 14 years old, I was crazy about Dr. Seuss. I loved the words he made up, and I just thought, 'Well, if he can make up words, then I can make up words.'

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I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

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If one day a TV series comes into my head, and that is what I want to write, I'll write it. It just depends what story is in my brain at the time.

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Author Bio

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