Evangeline Lilly

“On 'Ant-Man', I took a rubber stamp from the office of Hank Pym, who's played by Michael Douglas.”

“When I act, I come away drained. When I write, I come away energized.”

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

“I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was... my favorite book as a little girl, and the Silvan Elves were my favorite characters in the book.”

“Diets are a fool's errand.”

“To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion th...”

“I think that being isolated from the Hollywood world of premieres and red carpet events was probably good for me because I could ease into those at will and by my own choice. But in other as...”

“'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.”

“I've not worked with Martin Freeman. I've hung out with him, but I've not worked with him.”

“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 good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.”

“I am an opportunist. When opportunities come, and I see them serving my grander goals in life, I take them.”

“The difference in my body from pre-pregnancy to post-baby was night and day. I didn't have the strength, I didn't have the flexibility, I didn't have the stamina, I didn't have the mobility....”

“I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have sisters, so the women rule the coop in my house.”

“My son was three months old when I started filming 'The Hobbit,' and I was still breastfeeding.”

“I think of the 'Hobbit' films as being films for the family.”

“That's what happens in Hollywood. People are like, 'I want to hate you, because everyone else seems to love you.' But the reality is this: I'm a simple person who's not interested in attenti...”

“'Real Steel' was this lovely little piece where I held a cup of coffee and talked to Hugh Jackman for three weeks. And that sounded kind of nice.”

“For a human audience, seeing things that are slightly more otherworldly and beyond human power is always really fun and exciting to watch.”

“I lived in grass huts in a jungle in the Philippines for three weeks with tribal people.”