Evangeline Lilly Quotes

A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.

Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful.

It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I'm finished I'm not going to be on the front page, but I'm going to be just as happy without the publicity.

There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them.

Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she's famous enough to have some power, but not so famous she has to deal with people buzzing around her life.

The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.

I've never been interested in celebrity.

It's been crazy. My life has totally changed. One week I was in school, hanging out with my friends and the next, I'm going to the L.A. premiere of one of the year's biggest movies. It's been a crazy experience.

Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.

Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business.

Celebrity was fun, and I had a good time.

The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.

If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.

It's inconceivable to some people that that wouldn't be the sexiest thing to do in the whole world: to be a movie star, and make money, and be pampered, and whatever.

I didn't really want to be a movie star. I thought they were so screwed up!

In TV, you get driven to work in a luxury car, and find flowers in your dressing room. Then suddenly you're on tour, drying your hair backstage on plastic curtains.

I've learned how to be famous and a lot of people don't prepare for it and it's something that can change life for the better or for the worst.

I don't really miss the Hollywood lifestyle.

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.

As a young girl, I used to dream of giving an interview. You dream of stardom as a kid. People think they don't want to be stars. Everyone wants to be a star! That's the truth. Even grownups; they pretend they don't want to be one and don't care. But everyone wants to.

It's hard to walk down the street without 'Entourage' comments, and that's all nice.

In Hollywood, they say good news finds you.

That's what happens in Hollywood. People are like, 'I want to hate you, because everyone else seems to love you.' But the reality is this: I'm a simple person who's not interested in attention and who just wants to go about her business.

Celebrity is something I've never been into, and never will be.