I think women in Hollywood who don't do Botox and plastic surgery are revered. I revere them... My plan is to never go there. I'm too vain to get plastic surgery because I don't like how it looks, and I want to look my best.
— Evangeline Lilly
In every one of the 'Squickerwonker' books, we will explore a new Squickerwonker character and their vice and how their vice generally leads to their undoing.
I never developed hard cartilage in my ears because I played with them since I was a baby. I can fold my ear entirely inside out, and I can put the whole thing inside itself.
There are so many roles on TV that I don't covet. I see them, and I'm glad I don't have to play them.
I've had to find my sanity.
In high school, people wanted to find the worst in me.
'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.
What I wanted originally was six kids.
I actually find flying therapeutic.
In my world, I don't believe in forever promises. I don't think it's realistic.
My son was three months old when I started filming 'The Hobbit,' and I was still breastfeeding.
When I was a little girl, I dreamed of being an elf.
It's very difficult to play opposite nothing. I did it for, like, six years - I ran from an invisible smoke monster for most of my twenties.
I have been a bit of a reluctant actress since the get-go, since the beginning of 'Lost.'
I don't like the idea of playing a one-dimensional character who is just fearless, strong, and killer and has instincts and just thrives in dangerous circumstances - that's really boring to me, and I don't think it represents what most women feel inside.
It's so important for women to say to other women, 'I like myself how I am.' But it's hard because in your heart of hearts you are thinking, 'I don't really.' But you have to learn to say it. Imagine what a world it would be if people felt good about themselves the whole time.
I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.
I'm allergic to Hawaii. Everything there makes me react in some way.
'Why are we here?' 'What is our purpose? 'Is there an afterlife?' 'Is there a God?' 'Is it all about science?' Those are big questions, and usually, TV is a little scared to go there.
I lived in grass huts in a jungle in the Philippines for three weeks with tribal people.
I'm not a girl who needs to put on a whole face of make-up before I leave the house.
Somebody could take a picture of me from across the room, and I would feel like I wanted to rip their face off.
People were fed up with reality shows about midgets getting married and weird Jerry Springer talk shows. There had been a real dry spell of intelligent family-oriented viewing: the type of program that Mom, Dad and the kids can all watch together. With 'Lost,' there are just so many characters for people to invest in.
Peter Jackson has just really earned the right to be Tolkien's torchbearer on screen.
Life is all about embracing each moment that is given to you.
I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'
I have an American son and an American partner, so marriage might logistically make sense at one point. My partner is a stay-at-home father, so if he wants to be on my health plan, or tax wise, or maybe on paper we want to have our I's dotted and our T's crossed, but emotionally, neither of us really feels the need for it.
I am five foot six, I am built of muscle and bone, and that is not very good for fashion, but it's who I am. Women who look good in fashion are six foot tall, don't have an ounce of muscle, and their legs are the size of my arm.
I'm an actress, but I'm not stupid.
I've not worked with Martin Freeman. I've hung out with him, but I've not worked with him.
My favorite parts about 'The Battle of Five Armies' were the moments where you could clearly see that we were looking at New Zealand. That it wasn't done in post, it wasn't CGI, it was the beautiful, incredible creation of Mother Nature in all of her splendor.
I used to cry myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered at and disrespected me.
I would love to pretend I don't diet, but I work very hard. I stay active and eat very healthy. Anybody who says otherwise is either unhealthy or lying! I will admit that I'm addicted to sugar - licorice, Jujubees and jelly candies. And I actually love bran muffins!
I have battled clinical depression and have come out of the other side. I've been free of it for many years now. Finding the place in my own mind and heart to win that battle without using medication, finding the place within myself where I could be alive again, that was one of the biggest challenges I've faced.
I think I can allow myself one child - and from then on, I think I would have to adopt. It makes sense not to add to the population problem.
I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.
I hated being a flight attendant. I did it for a month and then quit.
I've been careful what I've put my name to.
I say no to photographs. When people take my picture, I feel like they've taken a piece of me, and I can't get that back. It's soul-draining.
I'm a pretty skeptical person, and I'm a realistic person.
Life is magically beautiful. And it brings you what is perfect.
I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.
I had my baby outside in a thunderstorm. It was really romantic.
Every other 16-year-old girl wanted to look at bridal magazines; I could not have been more bored with the notion.
If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.
I seem to be landing really great locations on a lot of my work. I hope that continues, knock on wood.
I haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!
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.
We decided to have the baby at home because we wanted it to be a natural birth, and it turns out that it was 30 hours of natural. Eight hours of pushing - that's the part that men don't understand. Women go, 'Oh, dear, oh, dear God, eight hours of pushing?' And the men are like, 'Okay, eight hours of pushing.'
In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.
