Evangeline Lilly Quotes

To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.

~ Evangeline Lilly

If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?

~ Evangeline Lilly

The difference in my body from pre-pregnancy to post-baby was night and day. I didn't have the strength, I didn't have the flexibility, I didn't have the stamina, I didn't have the mobility. I felt like I was handicapped.

~ Evangeline Lilly

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 influences converged in my life.

~ Evangeline Lilly

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.

~ Evangeline Lilly

My son is wonderful. He is amazing.

~ Evangeline Lilly

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.

~ Evangeline Lilly

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.

~ Evangeline Lilly

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

~ Evangeline Lilly

I would love to pretend I don't diet, but I work very hard. I stay active and eat very healthy. Anybody who says otherwise is either unhealthy or lying! I will admit that I'm addicted to sugar - licorice, Jujubees and jelly candies. And I actually love bran muffins!

~ Evangeline Lilly

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 T's crossed, but emotionally, neither of us really feels the need for it.

~ Evangeline Lilly

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

~ Evangeline Lilly

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.

~ 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

There's nothing more frustrating than when fans use a nickname. That's like people you don't know using names from people that you're intimate with. Like if my mom has a nickname and a fan finds it out and starts using it, that's creepy.

~ Evangeline Lilly

People were fed up with reality shows about midgets getting married and weird Jerry Springer talk shows. There had been a real dry spell of intelligent family-oriented viewing: the type of program that Mom, Dad and the kids can all watch together. With 'Lost,' there are just so many characters for people to invest in.

~ Evangeline Lilly

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.

~ 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 had my baby outside in a thunderstorm. It was really romantic.

~ 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