Evangeline Lilly
I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.Collection: Book
If your home is peaceful, then you're going to go out in your day peacefully.Collection: Home
My home is my castle, and I spend a lot of time nurturing it, redecorating - moving this and adjusting that, adding flowers and candles.Collection: Flower
Outside of acting, the person that I admire the most is my mother.Collection: Mother
I started to do everything I could to succeed, but found that the more successful I became, the less people liked me.Collection: Successful
I think doing a female Elf in the Woodland realm was a bit safer, because we haven't met one of those yet.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Daughter
I've had boyfriends complain, "Wait, you don't want to see me?" No, I don't. I just want to hang out by myself. So screw off.Collection: Waiting
I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me, because they assumed things about my mental capacity or my physical willingness based on the way I look.Collection: Sleep
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.Collection: Jobs
I am kind of prudish and I have very strict standards about how I present myself. But one of the things that I've always stood by is that women are beautiful and sexy. We shouldn't be afraid of that. [But] we need to make sure that we present that beauty and that sexiness in a way that says we are in control of our bodies. We're strong, we're classy, we're beautiful, powerful beings to be reckoned with, not victims.Collection: Beautiful
Money is the longest route to happiness.Collection: Routes
A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on Lost.Collection: Roles
As I grew older, I developed a very innate passion for art. I was actually pretty good at it.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Thinking
I don't know if any of you feel this way, but it's like eventually, you see a woman come on screen and you go, "Oh, thank God!" You just sort of need a break from all this testosterone, which happened, I think, in one of my films, The Hurt Locker. I was in it for like five minutes, and people were like, "You were in that movie!" And I was like, "Well, kind of." And they were like, "No, you were!" 'Cause they needed a woman!Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Hate
I got called and was told, "We'd like you to do The Hobbit", which was my favorite of all of them when I was a kid - "And we want you to play a character that's not in the books", I gulped and hesitated, but then I went, "These guys know this world, and they represent this world so well, that I actually think they've earned the right to have a little play."Collection: Book
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.Collection: Ideas
I have two roommates, so it's a challenge to keep the house the way I like.Collection: Two
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.Collection: Art
I was a die-hard fan of these books [The Hobbit] before the films ever came out. And when I say die-hard, I wasn't the person who could speak Elvish, but I really loved them.Collection: Book
That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.Collection: Anxiety
My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's the only place in the house that has a beautiful lush shag rug, which is my favorite.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Army
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.Collection: Ants
Every night I bring home flowers and burn candles. And I have a real sense that home is what starts everything inside of you.Collection: Real
Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.Collection: Passion
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.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Book
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.Collection: School
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 happens.Collection: Agency
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. 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. If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricity—it would be style...being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
As an actress, and as a person, I really admire Diane Keaton. She's feisty, strong, beautiful and talented, and intelligent.Collection: Beautiful
One of the great pleasures of working in Middle Earth is you get to be another being.Collection: Earth
My introduction into Marvel world was Comic-Con 2014 where I really had to take a step back and go, 'What have I walked into? What is this place? It's wild, and there's all these crazy rockstars walking around - who are all older than me, which was really weird. I was like, 'I feel too old to be in a superhero movie,' and they're like 10 years older than me.Collection: Crazy
If you watch a film from beginning to end, with no women in it, it's really difficult.Collection: Watches
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.Collection: Character
I know I can never work in a comedy because I can't keep a goddamn straight face.Collection: Faces
I can still go grocery shopping and not get mobbed. But when I was in South Africa this summer, I had people asking for autographs, and that scared me.Collection: Summer
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.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Soul
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.Collection: Simple
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.Collection: School
I decided I wanted to be a painter, and then that moved into wanting to be an animator. By adolescence, I just wanted it to be something that was important...something that would make a difference in people's lives or leave an imprint in history.Collection: Differences
I'm very sensitive. Emotionally, I bruise very easily. I'm a Leo, and this is very characteristic of our sign.Collection: Bruises
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.Collection: Fate
When I am doing things around the house - when I'm decorating, setting up furniture, putting out a vase of flowers, lighting my candles, my mind is always thinking, "What do I need to do to make this space peaceful and restful and comfortable so that when people walk into it, aesthetically they're heightened and enlightened?"Collection: Flower