Quotes

“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.” Evangeline Lilly

“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.” Evangeline Lilly

“When I got old enough to date, I realized that Valentine's Day is just a commercial marketing scam to make men feel bad. So I let my boyfriends off the hook.” Evangeline Lilly

“Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it's been an amazing experience. But I'm not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor.” Evangeline Lilly

“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.” Evangeline Lilly

“I was fortunate enough to be one of those stories where I was scouted on the street by somebody and actually refused to go to the agency, and was approached on different occasions and finally kind of caved and said, 'OK, I'll try it and see what happens.'” Evangeline Lilly

“I'm good at looking good with weapons and stunts. But if you put a bull's eye in front of me and asked me to hit it, I'd say the chances of me hitting it are about one in a million!” Evangeline Lilly

“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.” Evangeline Lilly

“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 felt like I was handicapped.” Evangeline Lilly

“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.” Evangeline Lilly

“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.'” Evangeline Lilly

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” Hans Christian Andersen

“Where words fail, music speaks.” Hans Christian Andersen

“Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” Hans Christian Andersen

“Travelling expands the mind rarely.” Hans Christian Andersen

“Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.” Hans Christian Andersen

“Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.” Hans Christian Andersen

“My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.” Hans Christian Andersen

“Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.” Hans Christian Andersen

“You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward.” Lucy Liu

“I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about.” Lucy Liu

“Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.” Lucy Liu

“I've definitely become much more aware of physical stunts.” Lucy Liu

“Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught.” Lucy Liu

“I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk.” Lucy Liu

“When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.” Lucy Liu

“You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.” Lucy Liu

“Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.” Lucy Liu

“It's like kill or be killed, that's my thing basically.” Lucy Liu

“Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.” Lucy Liu