Evangeline Lilly Quotes

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

I think it's a gift to become a star, to become a celebrity.

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.

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

I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.

In Hollywood, they say good news finds you.

It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?

I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

I always wanted to be a star.

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.

If you chase fame, you make bad choices. Being famous isn't interesting.

You are supposed to have a dream of walking the red carpet. But I'm really not like that. Because fame is... I don't think it is something interesting or precious.

If it were just a dream to be famous, then I probably would have died a really quick death, because there is nothing about me that equals fame. I'm not a standup comedian. I don't sing.

As it gets closer and more probable, being a star is really losing its meaning.

I've always wanted to be a star.

I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone.

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

There is no such thing as a reluctant star.

You've gotta play the Hollywood game, and you know you're doing good the more notoriety you're getting, and that's gold. That's what every actor wants because then you know you're at another level.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.