Evangeline Lilly Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word feminism because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood, I want to embrace my womanhood.”
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“There is a little bit of evil in all of us, and it's very easy to draw that out.”
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“If Americans could choose, would they choose to work on the infrastructure for cancer-causing oil power or would they choose to work on the infrastructure for health-reviving wind power?”
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“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.”
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“It's not your circumstances that make or break your day. It's your attitude!”
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“I like fantasy. I like worlds where sometimes you need the special effects to make it come alive, but it's not so fun acting it.”
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“Even if you're unhappy, just pretend that you're happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that, I used to think, I'm being fake, but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I like ambiguity. I think it's so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person.”
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“I know I can never work in a comedy because I can't keep a goddamn straight face.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.”
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“I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me.”
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“I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.”
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“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.”
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“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 that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.”
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“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.”
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“I love being outside - that's where I'm the happiest.”
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“There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil or sun, coal or wind, gas or algae, the economy will be stimulated by the investment. The economy, unlike each of us, is not swayed by ideology.”
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“I'm very picky when it comes to men. I come across a man who I'm really attracted to about once every five years.”
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“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.”
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“A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on Lost.”
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“Diets are a fool’s errand. I eat something sweet every day, whether it’s chocolate or a cookie. If I don’t, I guarantee you that there’s going to be a day every week when I’m going to stuff myself, especially if it’s PMS time.”
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“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.”
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“In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.”
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“I consider acting a day job - it's not my dream; it's not my be-all, end-all.”
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“I just like short hair on women; I think its cool.”
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“Every woman is after a kind of classy image.”
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