Top 90 Evangeline Lilly Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there’s the side of me that’s more polished.”

— Evangeline Lilly

52. “I love the creative end of acting. But I hate fame.”

— Evangeline Lilly

53. “I’ve had to find my sanity.”

— Evangeline Lilly

54. “I changed jobs like I changed shirts. It was something I just like to do – I like trying my hand at everything.”

— Evangeline Lilly

55. “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

56. “Writing is my number one passion. I’ve written two novels. I’ve written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.”

— Evangeline Lilly

57. “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

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

— Evangeline Lilly

59. “I think my style is very eclectic, because I love so many different things. And, that’s true, too, in almost every aspect of my life. I can go from really edgy to tailored and professional, and I just love to change things up.”

— Evangeline Lilly

60. “Every woman is after a kind of classy image.”

— Evangeline Lilly

61. “For me there’s a need for balance – fulfilling the sensitive side, letting my guard down, holding back the warrior in me. And I have to be vulnerable which is very hard for me to do.”

— Evangeline Lilly

62. “I like ambiguity. I think it’s so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person.”

— Evangeline Lilly

63. “If Americans could choose, would they choose to work on the infrastructure for cancer-causing oil power or would they choose to work on the infrastructure for health-reviving wind power?”

— Evangeline Lilly

64. “Originally, I wanted to do humanitarian work. I actually feel that getting into acting, which fate has led me to, is my window and path into humanitarian work. I always said I want to do something important. And I feel this work is what’s helping me get there.”

— Evangeline Lilly

65. “I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of grandeur and importance, and I wanted to be mediocre.”

— Evangeline Lilly

66. “I think doing a female Elf in the Woodland realm was a bit safer, because we haven’t met one of those yet.”

— Evangeline Lilly

67. “I enjoy the idea that even though I’m resting, I’m accomplishing something by reading a book.”

— Evangeline Lilly

68. “As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself – because you cant possibly please everyone.”

— Evangeline Lilly

69. “The way I’ve been able to embrace fame is by realizing that celebrity is just a means to send whatever message you want out into the world.”

— Evangeline Lilly

70. “When I was little, I attended five different elementary schools. My parents are very restless people, which is probably where I get my own nomadic lifestyle from.”

— Evangeline Lilly

71. “You can’t have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing at least one or two of them.”

— Evangeline Lilly

72. “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

73. “I don’t want everyone to think of me as just ‘that kid who called Jesse Jackson a communist in middle school.’ That’s why I decided to become a famous actress.”

— Evangeline Lilly

74. “When I pick a role, one of the things that I aspire to is that somebody’s parent will come up to me after the film has come out and say, “My daughter idealizes that character. You’re her hero.” That’s what I aim for. We’re in the business of making heroes.”

— Evangeline Lilly

75. “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.”

— Evangeline Lilly

76. “I just really like ants, and I really like science. I was interested and curious about the quantum world and the physics behind how it all works.”

— Evangeline Lilly

77. “I am who I am and I am what I am. And it’s beautiful. And it’s okay even if it doesn’t look like the sexiest Victoria Secret model. It also boils down to my interactions with people.”

— Evangeline Lilly

78. “I like fantasy. I like worlds where sometimes you need the special effects to make it come alive, but it’s not so fun acting it.”

— Evangeline Lilly

79. “I haven’t sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!”

— Evangeline Lilly

80. “A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on Lost.”

— Evangeline Lilly

81. “I don’t have the educated knowledge of what textures, colors, shapes and spaces need to be put together to make something just right. I’m learning it by trial and error, which is something that’s slow going.”

— Evangeline Lilly

82. “I know I can never work in a comedy because I can’t keep a goddamn straight face.”

— Evangeline Lilly

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

— Evangeline Lilly

84. “One of the great pleasures of working in Middle Earth is you get to be another being.”

— Evangeline Lilly

85. “I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.”

— Evangeline Lilly

86. “I consider acting a day job – it’s not my dream; it’s not my be-all, end-all.”

— Evangeline Lilly

87. “As an actress, and as a person, I really admire Diane Keaton. She’s feisty, strong, beautiful and talented, and intelligent.”

— Evangeline Lilly

88. “I always wear something slightly masculine.”

— Evangeline Lilly

89. “I started to do everything I could to succeed, but found that the more successful I became, the less people liked me.”

— Evangeline Lilly

90. “I have two roommates, so it’s a challenge to keep the house the way I like.”

— Evangeline Lilly

91. “I think one of the things that is easy to have happened in a superhero story is that the female character, whether she be a heroine or not, can often be the wart on the man.”

— Evangeline Lilly

92. “I didn’t grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn’t watch TV. We didn’t have a lot of magazines around.”

— Evangeline Lilly