Quotes from Evangeline Lilly

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

If your home is peaceful, then you're going to go out in your day peacefully.

Every night I bring home flowers and burn candles. And I have a real sense that home is what starts everything inside of you.

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.

Saying 'no' is not hard for me; it's scarier for me to say 'yes.' I'm actually more afraid of commitment than of saying 'no.'

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

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!

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.

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 am a classy dame.

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.

'Real Steel' was this lovely little piece where I held a cup of coffee and talked to Hugh Jackman for three weeks. And that sounded kind of nice.

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

If you go back to, say, the Brothers Grimm or Roald Dahl, you see so much darkness in children's material.

I consider acting a day job - it's not my dream; it's not my be-all, end-all.

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

A creative project is a moving target. You never end up where you start.

The reality is when you open a door, there is no sense in closing it - so I would never say, 'I'll never act again.' But it's definitely not my priority.

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've been astounded to discover how good to their teams and crew that Marvel are. They're so collaborative, so smart with their stories. They have rich, dynamic characters which are so much fun to play.

I definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance.

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'm a good Canadian girl. I miss all that good stuff. I miss tobogganing and I miss snowboarding, but I've also learned to surf and I've become a water baby which I used to be relatively terrified of the water and I kayak all the time now and I'm able to run year round on the beach which you can't obviously do in Canada.

Diets are a fool's errand.