Top 227 Quotes & Sayings by Evangeline Lilly - Page 2

I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.

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

I am five foot six, I am built of muscle and bone, and that is not very good for fashion, but it's who I am. Women who look good in fashion are six foot tall, don't have an ounce of muscle, and their legs are the size of my arm.

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

What I wanted originally was six kids.

I don't like the idea of playing a one-dimensional character who is just fearless, strong, and killer and has instincts and just thrives in dangerous circumstances - that's really boring to me, and I don't think it represents what most women feel inside.

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.

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

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

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.

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.

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

Motherhood is a joy! I have dreamed about being a mother since I was 12 years old, and there's nothing disappointing about it.

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.

I dance around my living room to cheesy '80s aerobics music until I'm sweating really hard!

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

My son is wonderful. He is amazing.

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

I love to dance. Don't get me started, because you will never get me to stop.

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

I hated being a flight attendant. I did it for a month and then quit.

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

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

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

I seem to be landing really great locations on a lot of my work. I hope that continues, knock on wood.

We decided to have the baby at home because we wanted it to be a natural birth, and it turns out that it was 30 hours of natural. Eight hours of pushing - that's the part that men don't understand. Women go, 'Oh, dear, oh, dear God, eight hours of pushing?' And the men are like, 'Okay, eight hours of pushing.'

I lived in grass huts in a jungle in the Philippines for three weeks with tribal people.

I actually find flying therapeutic.

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

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

Life is all about embracing each moment that is given to you.

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

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

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

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

Believe me, there is nothing more rewarding than making Peter Jackson chuckle.

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.

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

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.

I do feel like I'm at ease in my own skin when I find an androgynous balance.

I don't want to shield kids from reality.

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

I see kids and young adults walking the streets of L.A. with this enormous sense of entitlement, who seem to think that if they are basically good people and pay their bills, then the world will be good back to them. And I think life isn't always like that.

My favorite parts about 'The Battle of Five Armies' were the moments where you could clearly see that we were looking at New Zealand. That it wasn't done in post, it wasn't CGI, it was the beautiful, incredible creation of Mother Nature in all of her splendor.

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

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.

I've had to find my sanity.

I love getting older!

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.

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

Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.

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.

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

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.

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

It's so important for women to say to other women, 'I like myself how I am.' But it's hard because in your heart of hearts you are thinking, 'I don't really.' But you have to learn to say it. Imagine what a world it would be if people felt good about themselves the whole time.

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

I just don't think that a lot of the time the messages we send kids prepare them for real life.

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

Walking is a very underestimated exercise in North America. It's all run hard, lift weights and push your body, but walking is wonderful for elongating the body and posture.