Quotes
Any excuse to get dolled up is good for me... because they cover me with grease and grime on the show [LOST].
- Evangeline Lilly
As soon as I left high school I cut my ties with everyone I knew and took off to a new city and I started again. I moved [between] towns in British Columbia. I remember saying to myself when I got to this new town, 'You can be anyone you want to be now. Nobody knows you. Nobody has an expectation of you. So you choose who you want to be'.
- Evangeline Lilly
At one time, I worked five jobs at once while going to school full-time and it still doesn't compare to what I'm doing right now.
- Evangeline Lilly
Being a Christian doesn't sit well in this industry. I don't mind kissing scenes if they're telling the story, but I won't do them if they're gratuitous.
- Evangeline Lilly
Being the hot star isn’t the dream. But I can do more humanitarian work and effect more people on a larger scale. Not necessarily because I’m famous but just because, financially, I’m more capable and I have more influence. It’s an amazing place to be in.
- Evangeline Lilly
But I gotta tell you that the reporters, the international reporters, I wanted to ring their necks because they were lovely -- bless their souls, but they asked the EXACT same bloody questions over and over and over..
- Evangeline Lilly
By the end of the first season I felt there were expectations for me to be someone I’m not. It was upsetting. I spent almost a month of my summer writing and reading, praying and meditating, and silently allowing myself to reconcile all of these things I'd experienced with the show and re-understanding this industry. Since the summer, I've started to see the fruits of this introspection. It comes in my fan mail. 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." It makes me understand why I'm doing this job, why I was led to do this job in the first place.
- Evangeline Lilly
Evangeline I used to be afraid of the water so I took lessons, and now I really love the ocean. It’s so warm and peaceful and welcoming. Now, every day that I’m not in the ocean is incomplete.
- Evangeline Lilly
Ever since high school I had done things so people wouldn't just respect me because of the way I looked. I decided, to hell with it. I'm going to pursue mediocrity, and I'm going to be so happy.
- Evangeline Lilly
Fire is the greatest purifier and it feels really good. It feels really pure to have no possessions. It's kind of a fun place to be at.
- Evangeline Lilly
For ages I didn't want to be noticed. Then I decided to assert myself by going to auditions.
- Evangeline Lilly
