Top 90 Evangeline Lilly Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The world is full of opportunities, and I want to try as many as I possibly can.”

— Evangeline Lilly

2. “My home is my castle, and I spend a lot of time nurturing it, redecorating – moving this and adjusting that, adding flowers and candles.”

— Evangeline Lilly

3. “I’m very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don’t even like the word feminism because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I’m not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don’t want to embrace manhood, I want to embrace my womanhood.”

— Evangeline Lilly

4. “I’m surrounded by people who care about me and love me. I have a great job. I have wonderful roommates who take care of me. I have a family who adores me.”

— Evangeline Lilly

5. “There is a little bit of evil in all of us, and it’s very easy to draw that out.”

— Evangeline Lilly

6. “My bedroom is my sanctuary. It’s the only place in the house that has a beautiful lush shag rug, which is my favorite.”

— Evangeline Lilly

7. “I love being outside – that’s where I’m the happiest.”

— Evangeline Lilly

8. “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.”

— Evangeline Lilly

9. “It’s not your circumstances that make or break your day. It’s your attitude!”

— Evangeline Lilly

10. “I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn’t reach her peak until her 40s.”

— Evangeline Lilly

11. “Money is the longest route to happiness.”

— Evangeline Lilly

12. “If your home is peaceful, then you’re going to go out in your day peacefully.”

— Evangeline Lilly

13. “I love my home. It’s the only thing I really spend money on. I don’t really spend a lot of money on anything else. No fancy cars. No designer clothes.”

— Evangeline Lilly

14. “I felt like I was a good woman, a good person. But I was sinking deeper and deeper into depression, because my soul wasn’t living. I was purposely holding down my soul and my spirit. It was dying inside of me.”

— Evangeline Lilly

15. “As I grew older, I developed a very innate passion for art. I was actually pretty good at it.”

— Evangeline Lilly

16. “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.”

— Evangeline Lilly

17. “If you watch a film from beginning to end, with no women in it, it’s really difficult.”

— Evangeline Lilly

18. “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

19. “I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me.”

— Evangeline Lilly

20. “I just like short hair on women; I think its cool.”

— Evangeline Lilly

21. “Nature inspires us. Not being able to reach out and touch it, or see it, makes me get really antsy.”

— Evangeline Lilly

22. “I’m very picky when it comes to men. I come across a man who I’m really attracted to about once every five years.”

— Evangeline Lilly

23. “Outside of acting, the person that I admire the most is my mother.”

— Evangeline Lilly

24. “I don’t know why, but the warmth and the comfort of flickering light help. And a fire, in the fireplace or on the beach, is very comforting. I think when you make something consistent and familiar, it helps. I light candles every single night in my home.”

— Evangeline Lilly

25. “I read every single letter. Some just break my heart. I’ve cried over letters that have come in, from young women and older women alike, saying to me, “You know, you made me want to stop crash dieting and just be healthy. You are my role model. I want to be like you.””

— Evangeline Lilly

26. “I just wanted friends. I just wanted people to like me. I just wanted for things to be simple and good. So, for five years I actively sought out mediocrity.”

— Evangeline Lilly

27. “Diets are a fool’s errand. I eat something sweet every day, whether it’s chocolate or a cookie. If I don’t, I guarantee you that there’s going to be a day every week when I’m going to stuff myself, especially if it’s PMS time.”

— Evangeline Lilly

28. “I try my very hardest to remember that I don’t have to be anything but Evangeline. That’s all that’s expected of me. And if I try to be more or less, I will fall flat on my face. So if I just continue to hold my head high and keep myself in check, I’m being who I was born to be.”

— Evangeline Lilly

29. “I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.”

— Evangeline Lilly

30. “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

31. “Every night I bring home flowers and burn candles. And I have a real sense that home is what starts everything inside of you.”

— Evangeline Lilly

32. “Truthfully, I love being in the jungle. I love it when the make-up artists come to set, they come equipped with dirt and sweat. I spend my days climbing trees and I can crawl out of bed and walk on set and that’s exactly all I have to look like.”

— Evangeline Lilly

33. “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

34. “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

35. “I tended to be a solitary young girl, and I still am. I would like to find a quiet corner and color in my coloring book. When I think back, I made that corner mine, not really caring about the rest of the house.”

— Evangeline Lilly

36. “I bought almost every single thing that I furnished my house with at the Salvation Army in Hawaii. All second hand. Some of them are kind of retro, and some of them you’d never know.”

— Evangeline Lilly

37. “The directors did an amazing job and Josh Holloway is just he’s just shining. I think that, of the people I started working with, he’s one of the people I’m most impressed with. How he’s grown and learned and he’s been just stunning everyone with his performances.”

— Evangeline Lilly

38. “I’m always changing things around. I have to change it all the time. I’m rearranging furniture and taking down paintings and putting up new ones, and buying new pieces of art.”

— Evangeline Lilly

39. “When I was young I was soft spoken and a little bit timid and passive. My dream then was to be a ballerina or a figure skater – something very delicate.”

— Evangeline Lilly

40. “I have these huge, pointed ears. They’re like three times the size of Orlando Bloom’s ears. And I think he has ear envy, I love my ears.”

— Evangeline Lilly

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

— Evangeline Lilly

42. “I have to have nature around me. I love the earth and this insanely beautiful creation that we live in. I just think it’s to be marveled at and appreciated. It gives us life.”

— Evangeline Lilly

43. “I like to be around people who make me laugh. It’s one of my favorite things on a set. I hate it when people take themselves serious in a film set.”

— Evangeline Lilly

44. “I eventually want to come back to Canada, to disappear, have nobody know me, and just be a writer and do what I want to do.”

— Evangeline Lilly

45. “Even though I’m resting I’m accomplishing something by sewing that shirt that I’ve been meaning to sew for weeks. And it’s relaxing. It’s so very meditative and quiet and enjoyable. But at least I’m producing something. I’m being productive in some way. I have a very hard time being completely idle.”

— Evangeline Lilly

46. “I adore having people over to my home. My number one reason I love that is because I love to see people at ease with each other.”

— Evangeline Lilly

47. “I’m very sensitive. Emotionally, I bruise very easily. I’m a Leo, and this is very characteristic of our sign.”

— Evangeline Lilly

48. “I am so glad that I get to maintain a relatively down-to-earth lifestyle.”

— Evangeline Lilly

49. “Ironically, when I hit adolescence, I was approached about modeling and acting all the time. And, for five years, I said, “No, I’m not interested. I want a simple life, I don’t want to be in the spotlight.””

— Evangeline Lilly

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

— Evangeline Lilly