291 Quotes by Evangeline Lilly

If you watch a film from beginning to end, with no women in it, it's really difficult.

Walking is a very underestimated exercise in North America. It's all run hard, lift weights and push your body, but walking is wonderful for elongating the body and posture.

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

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.

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?"

I hated being a flight attendant. I did it for a month and then quit.

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.

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

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.