Evanna Lynch » Quotes: Being the Girl-Next-Door

While she is a 'Potter' superstar, she is also a normal Irish girl! Evanna is, after all, from a sleepy town call Termonfeckin! Quotes about real life, school, Ireland, life after 'Potter' and keeping a trying to balance being an actor and an everyday Irish girl!


- on her homeland, Ireland
"But people in Ireland enjoy their famous actors, their claims to fame, but I don’t think they get too fazed by it, you know? My family and friends are exactly the same as they were, and life is normal. I’m still working away, still doing my Leaving Cert (high school finals) and all that, you know?"

"I like Ireland and I have loads of friends there, but I think I want to move to London when I’m older because there’s a lot more to do and I do find it more freeing."

"I think in Ireland a lot of the time I feel boxed in. In Ireland you really have to break out to do acting, but in England — and in London in particular — it’s more accepted. Anything can happen there. You can never be bored."

"But Ireland is nice to come back to, too. We live in the country here and you feel so detached from the world, and that’s quite nice."

"I've been back home since November and gradually all connections with my HP life have been fading. It’s gotten to the point where I feel like it was a dream because everything has gone back almost exactly to how it was before it all happened. It's possible to forget and it’s only when someone asks ‘when’s the movie coming out?’ that I remember 'oh yes, that'."


- on living in London during shooting
"I love London. I’ll be back regularly though. It’s not like I’m going ’til October. During the months I’m there a lot I’ll stay but when there’s only a few days I’ll be back a lot. I have to get a chaperone over there. I don’t know much about it yet. But my mum and dad won’t be coming because they have jobs, my brothers and sisters, their own lives."


- on promoting the 'Potter' series all over Europe
"It will be amazing to be on the other side of the barrier this time. For the last premiere I watched the actors arriving and it will be so odd this time to be there also arriving with them."

"I can’t wait! I think I’ll attend premieres in Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Poland and other places."

"I’ll be traveling with Bonnie Wright (who plays Ginny Weasley) and Matt Lewis (who plays Neville Longbottom)."


- on the difficulties of keeping a healthy balance
"I got very carried away with my Harry Potter life and we did have school but I didn’t study. I just had fun. After all the school I missed I have so much work to catch up on."

"I just have to do solid work now and that is hard because there are so many distractions. I think it’s just because it’s my first film, hopefully on the next one I can balance the two worlds a bit."

"I try to come to my school once in while because it is very different here on the set. It is very hard, but they are trying their best to tutor the best they can."


- on 'Twilight'
"They are good books but I don’t think they are so fantastic as Harry Potter. I don’t think they are that good and for a time I were a bit like a anti Twilight. All said it was the new Harry Potter and I don’t agree."

"You did not like Twilight? I am happy to hear that. It is like the books are written by a girl who is a teen. But that is of course also the charm about it but you can not say they are fantanstic. Did you saw the movie?"

"It is also get tiring that Bella all the time is talking about how beautiful Edward is. Get over it."


- on her ship choices
"I ship all the normal ones – Ginny/Harry, Ron/Hermione, blah blah blah. But I do have a strange one, which is Luna/Dumbledore. I think they would be quite perfect. They’re both so detached, so otherworldly and so comfortable with themselves and they have this uncommon fearlessness of death. They also both have quirky hobbies and deep minds and I can see them getting along a storm. I don’t see this ship sailing, of course. It’s just one which I think could have had potential, aided along by a time-turner."


- on her future post-Potter
"It wasn’t any part and it wasn’t any movie: it was Luna in a Harry Potter film, and I didn’t think, 'oh there’s going to be thousands of people, how am I going to do it', I just thought 'I know Luna more than anyone could'."

"I’m completely fascinated by the theater. I love going to the West End to see the shows. It’s acting without all the hype attached to it. Actors are given more free reign, you know?"

"I just love watching one person on a stage holding the whole audience captivated. Whereas in film you’re very protected, you can mess up, you have that freedom and you can always ask to do it again."

"I'm not sure about what I want to do for ever. I would like continue acting but for now I can say that I'm enjoying every moment that I have with all of these people and here I have the great opportunity to learn and at 17 I'm surrounded with people that I can learn from and I keep changing my mind every week about my career so we'll see."