Evangeline Lilly quote: "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.' A month and a half after my first audition I won the role on Lost ."

Even if you're unhappy, just pretend that you're happy. Eventually, your smile will be conta...
EVANGELINE LILLY

Every other 16-year-old girl wanted to look at bridal magazines; I could not have been more bored wi...
EVANGELINE LILLY

I'm good at looking good with weapons and stunts. But if you put a bull's eye in front of me...
EVANGELINE LILLY

I'm from Canada, and New Zealand feels like you took all the best bits of Canada and squished th...
EVANGELINE LILLY

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

I am a classy dame.
EVANGELINE LILLY

Every woman is after a kind of classy image.
EVANGELINE LILLY

If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a ...
EVANGELINE LILLY

Believe me, there is nothing more rewarding than making Peter Jackson chuckle.
EVANGELINE LILLY

It is a very frustrating thing to be the face of a creative project and yet essentially have zero cr...
EVANGELINE LILLY

I've been astounded to discover how good to their teams and crew that Marvel are. They're so...
EVANGELINE LILLY

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

My favorite parts about 'The Battle of Five Armies' were the moments where you could clearly...
EVANGELINE LILLY

I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism...
EVANGELINE LILLY

I'm the kind of person who, if I were living in another time, if I had to pick any time, I would...
EVANGELINE LILLY

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

I used to cry myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered at and disrespected m...
EVANGELINE LILLY

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

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

I have battled clinical depression and have come out of the other side. I've been free of it for...
EVANGELINE LILLY

'Why are we here?' 'What is our purpose? 'Is there an afterlife?' 'Is there ...
EVANGELINE LILLY

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

I am an opportunist. When opportunities come, and I see them serving my grander goals in life, I tak...
EVANGELINE LILLY

To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortun...
EVANGELINE LILLY

I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pre...
EVANGELINE LILLY

I think that being isolated from the Hollywood world of premieres and red carpet events was probably...
EVANGELINE LILLY

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

Diets are a fool's errand.
EVANGELINE LILLY

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

I think I'm not always what I seem. Most people, when they get to know me, say, 'You know, w...
EVANGELINE LILLY

For a human audience, seeing things that are slightly more otherworldly and beyond human power is al...
EVANGELINE LILLY

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

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

I would love to pretend I don't diet, but I work very hard. I stay active and eat very healthy. ...
EVANGELINE LILLY

The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad...
EVANGELINE LILLY

I'm a bit of a pick-pocket on-set. If something is small enough to go in my pocket, and it will ...
EVANGELINE LILLY

After about five hours of pushing, my midwife and my birthing assistant said, 'You know, we have...
EVANGELINE LILLY

I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have si...
EVANGELINE LILLY

That's what happens in Hollywood. People are like, 'I want to hate you, because everyone els...
EVANGELINE LILLY

I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was... my favorite book as a little girl, and the ...
EVANGELINE LILLY

I don't like the idea of playing a one-dimensional character who is just fearless, strong, and k...
EVANGELINE LILLY

I think women in Hollywood who don't do Botox and plastic surgery are revered. I revere them... ...
EVANGELINE LILLY

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

One of the things that I miss about Canada is that even the strangers, you have an immediate rapport...
EVANGELINE LILLY

In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and de...
EVANGELINE LILLY

When I got old enough to date, I realized that Valentine's Day is just a commercial marketing sc...
EVANGELINE LILLY

I'm very picky when it comes to men. I come across a man who I'm really attracted to about o...
EVANGELINE LILLY

Wonder Woman was my favorite superhero as a little girl. I still have a huge girl crush on Wonder Wo...
EVANGELINE LILLY

People were fed up with reality shows about midgets getting married and weird Jerry Springer talk sh...
EVANGELINE LILLY

I just like short hair on women; I think it's cool.
EVANGELINE LILLY

I'm a good Canadian girl. I miss all that good stuff. I miss tobogganing and I miss snowboarding...
EVANGELINE LILLY

There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil ...
EVANGELINE LILLY

I got the script for 'Real Steel.' I started reading and saw that it was about robot boxing,...
EVANGELINE LILLY

I have an American son and an American partner, so marriage might logistically make sense at one poi...
EVANGELINE LILLY

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

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

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.
EVANGELINE LILLY

You know, I was after some double-sided tape in the car earlier and I didn't have any,
EVANGELINE LILLY

He's a total nudist,
EVANGELINE LILLY

We've yet to talk about it (with the media). People talk about my rumoured relationship with Dominic...
EVANGELINE LILLY

She met Murray while waitressing and he worked odd jobs to support her.
EVANGELINE LILLY

It totally floored me,
EVANGELINE LILLY

He is notorious for taking his clothes off and running around naked, usually around bodies of water....
EVANGELINE LILLY

I still have a family who adore me. I still have friends I count on back home, and I still have brow...
EVANGELINE LILLY

Motherhood is a joy! I have dreamed about being a mother since I was 12 years old, and there's n...
EVANGELINE LILLY

My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side...
EVANGELINE LILLY

We decided to have the baby at home because we wanted it to be a natural birth, and it turns out tha...
EVANGELINE LILLY

Five actors playing allotted parts on a set stage; and now he, for whom no part had been written, ha...
EVANGELINE WALTON

Dip your fingers n the spring stream or lift your face to the summer rains. Listen for me in the win...
EVANGELINE DENMARK

Also another time she had wakened in dead of night, thinking that something touched her, and when sh...
EVANGELINE WALTON

Are these black cats like the hare?"

"No. They're smaller; they only want me to play with...
EVANGELINE WALTON

For cleverness and wisdom are as different as are the circuitous passages of a labyrinth and the str...
EVANGELINE WALTON

I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks!...
LILLY PULITZER

When I used to live in Toronto, I would always be the busiest person out of all my friends... no one...
LILLY SINGH

Unwavering incremental change can create remarkable and monumental results.
RYAN LILLY

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
WILLIAM LILLY

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
JOHN LILLY

Growing up, I was always creatively inclined, and when YouTube came about, it was like getting the p...
LILLY SINGH

A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you're in a room full of a million pe...
LILLY SINGH

My creative process is a bit manic at times, to be honest. I wake up Monday and Thursday stressed be...
LILLY SINGH

Love who you are, embrace who you are. Love yourself. When you love yourself, people can kind of pic...
LILLY SINGH

Happiness is the only thing worth fighting for in your life.
LILLY SINGH

No matter what I put out, somebody will be offended. I made a video on 10 reasons to smile, and it h...
LILLY SINGH

I always say that when I first started, my videos were very veered towards Indian people.
LILLY SINGH

I am pretty weird - as weird as in my videos. The only difference is Lilly is not a performer, and S...
LILLY SINGH

Everyone can relate to the story of fighting for happiness.
LILLY SINGH

I've had fans do some pretty awesome things... I once had a fan do a mock proposal for me in Mum...
LILLY SINGH

There is no casting director; there is no producer monitoring your upload button. Anyone that looks ...
LILLY SINGH

Every day, something new gets thrown at me, and I'm like, 'How did this happen?' I'v...
LILLY SINGH

I'm like, 'I think I'm just going to wear what makes me happy,' so I'm just real...
LILLY SINGH

I recently caught myself giving a pretty girl the cold shoulder because I felt intimidated. She was ...
LILLY SINGH

It's everyone's responsibility to build up other women rather than tear them down. Be self-a...
LILLY SINGH

I think what people like about my channel is that I am not perfect. I always point to my pimple, my ...
LILLY SINGH

I'm the type of person who doesn't hope, dream or wish for things. I work and work and work.
LILLY SINGH

'Unicorn Island' is the synonym for my happy place. It's a really beautiful message: tha...
LILLY SINGH

There's no escalators - there's only staircases to success. There is no substitute for hard ...
LILLY SINGH

It's really important to talk to yourself and look at yourself in the mirror and love who you ar...
LILLY SINGH

I'm my own boss, my own editor, my own shooter, my own writer, everything. This is all stuff I l...
LILLY SINGH

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.
LILLY SINGH

In my life I've gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so ma...
LILLY SINGH

You need a really solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.
LILLY SINGH

Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money...
LILLY LEDBETTER

Life is a web of intersections and choices. Your 1st choice is to recognize an intersection. Your 2n...
RYAN LILLY

'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.
LILLY WACHOWSKI

Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn't m...
LILLY SINGH

I am not looking for a relationship right now. I have no interest in putting my time or effort into ...
LILLY SINGH

If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their asce...
WILLIAM LILLY

Being happy never goes out of style.
LILLY PULITZER

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. Y...
LILLY SINGH

Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for...
LILLY DACHE

The hardest guy ever to contain was Fran Tarkenton. He was like a rabbit.
BOB LILLY

Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a...
BOB LILLY

Our Super Bowl VI that we won was the biggest game because it took a lot of pressure off. It was eno...
BOB LILLY

My hero when I was a boy was Sammy Baugh, who was in the pros already, but he came from a little tow...
BOB LILLY

Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After...
BOB LILLY

The game when we started the flex was 60 percent run, 40 percent pass. Today's game-although I do se...
BOB LILLY

There's a half-inch metal plate behind that pad, and he hit that pad with his middle knuckle and bro...
BOB LILLY

I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in...
BOB LILLY

We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who...
BOB LILLY

He was a rare one: only 5 feet 7 inches tall, a lawyer and a combat veteran of the Korean War as a M...
BOB LILLY

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
JOHN LILLY

I don't like my whole life dragged out. I don't want anyone to know about me, because I don&...
LILLY PULITZER

After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the p...
WILLIAM LILLY

For anyone aspiring to be anything, I would like them to realise dreams require work. So work big ti...
LILLY SINGH

You have a character who is wearing a scarf on her head on a billboard in LA, New York, Sydney and M...
LILLY SINGH

We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten year...
LILLY LEDBETTER

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.
LILLY WACHOWSKI

Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't b...
BOB LILLY

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.
RYAN LILLY

I swear Kim Kardashian's first marriage lasted longer than some of my iPhone chargers.
LILLY SINGH

The choice to make good choices is the best choice you can choose. Fail to make that choice and on m...
RYAN LILLY

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heaven.
WILLIAM LILLY

I was finally able to get the curve ball over for strikes, ... I wasn't able to do that my last two ...
TED LILLY

A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot...
RYAN LILLY

Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the mea...
WILLIAM LILLY

I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it w...
RYAN LILLY

I get this buzz every time I'm quoted online. The ego high... yes... but also a Google Alert.
RYAN LILLY

To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in.
DORIS LILLY

I'm friends with a guy who is friends with a former Playboy model. So I guess you could say I'm 1 de...
RYAN LILLY

After a long day at work, I want someone to come home, turn on my video and think, 'Oh my God, h...
LILLY SINGH

Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.
DORIS LILLY

He demolished people . . . . You either loved him or you hated him, but there was no one remotely li...
DORIS LILLY

Millionaires are marrying their secretaries because they are so busy making money they haven't time ...
DORIS LILLY

To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in.
DORIS LILLY

Seeing Michelle Obama's bright color choices, and how she made people smile and reinforced Obama...
LILLY PULITZER

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
WILLIAM LILLY

Some of the temporary workers walked off the job yesterday, while the majority did not. We determine...
DAVID LILLY

I want to get ready for Friday or Saturday, Saturday would be optimum. But it's more important to me...
TED LILLY

I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instrument...
WILLIAM LILLY

I am a believer that color affects people's moods.
LILLY PULITZER

Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpe...
RYAN LILLY

I would say that as a lineman, I patterned myself after Gino Marchetti.
BOB LILLY

I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to e...
BOB LILLY

I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping ...
BOB LILLY

Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It's becoming the way entire bicycles ar...
RYAN LILLY

God, you're so sweet.” He holds my face in his hands and kisses me deeply. I slowly unzip his hood...
LILLY AVALON

Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of crea...
RYAN LILLY

Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up an...
RYAN LILLY

Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condit...
RYAN LILLY

A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time.
RYAN LILLY

Yesterday is a pile of rubble. Today is a pile of opportunity. Life takes a new dump each morning
RYAN LILLY

The only way we can be effective as a government is when we receive input from residents.
BILL LILLY

In Europe, biathlon is the No. 1 televised Olympic sport. The key is getting some TV exposure in the...
BILL LILLY

Over a period of time it was recommended that Pineland would be the optimal location for us, so we w...
BILL LILLY

0-10 didn't seem too significant at that point. You know people that knew someone (in the mines), so...
BILL LILLY

(Coughlin) had about six things going at one time. He was up (in the church) involved heavily, and h...
BILL LILLY

The skiing is right there. It's country-ish, but that's biathlon and that's Maine.
BILL LILLY

Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you.
RYAN LILLY

The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with.
RYAN LILLY

Contributors and distributors tend to do better at personal branding than takers and fakers.
RYAN LILLY

Everyone breathing is broken. Keep breathing light into them until the stained glass collage takes y...
RYAN LILLY

Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet?
RYAN LILLY

You can’t force creatives into a box. If you try, they’ll no longer be creative. And no one will...
RYAN LILLY

The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go ...
RYAN LILLY

You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will wan...
RYAN LILLY

A personal brand should not be elevated if there is nothing underneath the label.
RYAN LILLY

Proformas rarely perform; missed projections are more often the norm. Still, we skew them up high, w...
RYAN LILLY

The smell of new office supplies is so satisfying while being kicked out of Staples for inappropriat...
RYAN LILLY

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.
RYAN LILLY

A life spent at the edge of the pier is a life full of regret, a life full of fear.
RYAN LILLY

Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose yo...
RYAN LILLY

I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?'...
RYAN LILLY

I'm actually not making fun of my real parents. I've taken stereotypical traits of my real p...
LILLY SINGH

Every day is full of opportunities, but an opportunity is full of only so many days.
RYAN LILLY

Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions.
RYAN LILLY

Despite the forecast, live like it's spring.
LILLY PULITZER

Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Ala...
LILLY LEDBETTER

I like to describe my stuff as observational comedy.
LILLY SINGH

Wal-Mart is here and we're going to make sure that everyone is moving in the right direction.
CAMILLE LILLY

Wal-Mart is a neighbor that's going to join other businesses already here.
CAMILLE LILLY

She was probably more than likely in a private room, being cared for by our nursing staff and our me...
CAMILLE LILLY

We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new r...
RYAN LILLY

You are not any different. You can do anything you want. So many times, I've been asked what I t...
LILLY SINGH

We believe the constant repetition of those images simply builds up any tension that might arise thi...
DICK LILLY

He's in good spirits. He's watching the Mariners' game with an ice pack over one eye.
DICK LILLY

The mayor was knocked down, but he never lost consciousness.
DICK LILLY

I'd still like better results than there were (yesterday) but the main thing is we hung on and we wo...
TED LILLY

Every year, they're going to have a pretty potent lineup. And I think I ran into them on a lot of da...
TED LILLY

[Because of what the Yankees are and the fact he has pitched for them, Lilly agreed there might be s...
TED LILLY

They're a really tough club to go out there and control, ... The main thing is that we hung on and w...
TED LILLY

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