That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.

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.

I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.

I try my very hardest to remember that I don't have to be anything but Evangeline. That's all that's expected of me. And if I try to be more or less, I will fall flat on my face. So if I just continue to hold my head high and keep myself in check, I'm being who I was born to be.

Outside of acting, the person that I admire the most is my mother.

I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me, because they assumed things about my mental capacity or my physical willingness based on the way I look.

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