Evangeline Lilly

I haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!

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

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 seem to be landing really great locations on a lot of my work. I hope that continues, knock on wood.

I'm an actress, but I'm not stupid.

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

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

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.

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

Every other 16-year-old girl wanted to look at bridal magazines; I could not have been more bored with the notion.

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 had my baby outside in a thunderstorm. It was really romantic.

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

I actually find flying therapeutic.

I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.

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!

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.