Evangeline Lilly

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.

Life is all about embracing each moment that is given to you.

What I wanted originally was six kids.

Life is magically beautiful. And it brings you what is perfect.

Peter Jackson has just really earned the right to be Tolkien's torchbearer on screen.

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

I'm a pretty skeptical person, and I'm a realistic person.

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.

In high school, people wanted to find the worst in me.

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.

Somebody could take a picture of me from across the room, and I would feel like I wanted to rip their face off.

I've had to find my sanity.

I've been careful what I've put my name to.

I'm not a girl who needs to put on a whole face of make-up before I leave the house.

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

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

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.

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.

'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.

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 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'm allergic to Hawaii. Everything there makes me react in some way.

I do feel like I'm at ease in my own skin when I find an androgynous balance.

If you are not a clearly defined human being, it is very hard to define your image... What I've realized in my own journey in fashion is that I'm not that defined.

Every woman is after a kind of classy image.

I am a classy dame.

Motherhood is a joy! I have dreamed about being a mother since I was 12 years old, and there's nothing disappointing about it.

My son is wonderful. He is amazing.

We're not going to protect the Earth the way we need to protect it if we don't stop making so many babies.

I love getting older!

I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.

I'm a bit of a pick-pocket on-set. If something is small enough to go in my pocket, and it will be neat memorabilia, it's gone.

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

I dance around my living room to cheesy '80s aerobics music until I'm sweating really hard!

After about five hours of pushing, my midwife and my birthing assistant said, 'You know, we have a few suggestions.' And I was like, 'Really? After five hours of pushing you have a few suggestions? You couldn't have told me five minutes in?'

If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.

It is a very frustrating thing to be the face of a creative project and yet essentially have zero creative control over that project. Essentially, you're a pawn in the system.

I do love 'Star Wars,' although I'm not one of those crazy fans who knows everything about everyone.

There are some 'Star Treks' I love, and there are some I don't love.

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

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

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

I spent a lot of time in the clouds. Becoming a mother has really helped me put my feet on the ground and given me a very powerful sense of self and a powerful sense of priority in life.

I'm not a highly social person. I'm a highly productive person.

My partner doesn't read. He's not illiterate - he just chooses not to read - and I love reading. I'm obsessed with reading.

Everyone thinks they can cure stress by adding to their schedule, like going to yoga. Oh, great - one more thing to feel guilty about when you can't do it.

Diets are a fool's errand.

Your mind and soul are the kings of your physique way more than any exercise you do.

When I was 14 years old, I was crazy about Dr. Seuss. I loved the words he made up, and I just thought, 'Well, if he can make up words, then I can make up words.'