291 Quotes by Evangeline Lilly

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.

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

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."

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.

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.

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

I just like short hair on women, I think it's cool. And I have wanted to cut my hair for very many years, but being on contract with a television show for six years prevents you from doing that, and then being on contract with a cosmetic endorsement campaign prevents you from doing that again. So for eight years, I've had to have long, flowing locks. And I was just so sick and tired of long, flowing locks, so I chopped them.

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

That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.