Hot people need to be with hot people! Cameron Diaz – Justin Timberlake, good looking – good looking – make a baby.
Let the uggos hang out together!" (from Punk'd feat. Evangeline Lilly)

Matthew (about working with newcomer Evangeline Lilly):
"I knew that [Lost and Alias executive producer] JJ Abrams had such a fantastic track record that I wasn't concerned at all. The kind of confidence and poise that she has exhibited is remarkable." (Source: TV Guide)

Matthew: "Evie is incredibly charming, and she's fun to be around." (Source: People Magazine)

Matthew: "One of the things Evangeline has handled so amazingly is the pressure of the whole thing… I just want to help her in any way I can and make sure nobody is getting in the way of it." (Source: Lost, the Official Magazine)

Matthew: "Evangeline is so beautiful I sometimes find it really hard to concentrate on my job around her." Admits Matthew with a wink.
(Source: a Dutch article that can be found at Liesbeth's)

Matthew: "She deserves it. She's a hottie."

So did he really counsel, as has been reported, Lilly and her co-star and fiance... about the perils of dating a fellow cast member? "Advice on that? I don't know..." he says carefully. "We all go way back. Evie, Dom and I all got to know each other on the pilot, and all that demands the physical and emotional discoveries of each other. As early as that they had intense feelings for each other..."
(Source: Cosmopolitan)

Viva: Your colleague Evangeline Lilly told us that you like different things - skinny dipping ! In front of the whole crew !
Matthew: She told you ? Alright... Tell Evie I do it just for her.
(Source: Viva.de)

Matthew: Thats right the show got nominated and I believe Evie got nominated as well which is good. We're..we're all really happy.
(Source: ET)

Kimmel: Evangeline said she got the drunkest out of anyone in the cast. Is that true?
Foxy: That is absolutely true.
Kimmel: That is accurate?
Foxy: I ended up having to take care of her.
Kimmel: Did you really?
Foxy: Yeah, a little bit.
Kimmel: Wow, just like the show.
Foxy: Yeah.
Kimmel: You had to carry her to the trailer?
Foxy: Yeah, I did. She end up sleeping in her trailer that night, i had to kinda get her in there and ... yeah.. it was a little ugly.
(Source:Jimmy Kimmel Live!, 20/05/08)

Evangeline: He's [Fox] like a big brother. He took me under his wing.
(Source: People Magazine)
Evangeline: We call him Foxy because he is.

Evangeline: He's so handsome, so dashing and debonair.
Evangeline: He's matured beautifully.
(Source for those still unknown)

Evangeline: Matthew is a fantastic actor. He's absolutely one of my teachers and mentors on set… I think that's one of the reasons why Matthew and I have such natural chemistry onscreen, is that I am genuinely very taken by him when he's acting. He is a very captivating actor and I think Kate is supposed to be captivated by Jack.

Evangeline: I also challenged Matthew Fox to a push-up contest. I said, 'If you're gonna be my hero on the show, prove you can be
Evangeline: My first day on the set was with Matthew Fox and Dominic Monaghan. We had an instant connection, the three of us, and became instant buddies. We had an amazing time filming the pilot together and are very close.
(Source: Lost, the Official Magazine)

What do the two of you do when you're not filming? (referring to her and the hobbit)
Evangeline: Well, never in a million years did I imagine I would ever attempt to go surfing but I tried it for the first time a few days ago, right in Matthew's (Fox) backyard.

So tell us - what's the gorgeous Matthew Fox really like?
Evangeline: Matthew's like a father - he takes care of us kids! I'm always bugging him about his age and telling him he's an old man, but you can see he's a father, because he's got an instinct to take care of people. I think people who've never had a child are more likely to see the world through just their owns eyes. Whereas someone who's a father or mother is more likley to be aware of other peoples feelings.

Evangeline: Matthew Fox was really pivotal for me at the beginning. I have a hard time when people tell me what to do and when people assume I don't know things. I am kind of headstrong and have pride issues. He was really gentle about his way of leading me, it was always very subtle and well-intentioned. If he was ever able to guide me, it was usually done by example or it was situational, or it was him protecting me when I didn't even realize what he was doing. I learned from him that you should bare yourself in front of the camera and in front of your fellow actors. I learned about the absolute trust you must have with your fellow actors. Matthew completely opened up for me as soon as they called action.
(Source: Self magazine)

It's no surprise that many of Fox's fellow cast members, such as Evangeline Lilly... look to him as a kind of father figure, albeit a fun one. Lilly has revealed that, as well as helping her with her acting, Fox loves to take the piss out of her.
(Source: Cosmopolitan)
Evangeline: "He's a total nudist, He has a really bad habit of taking his clothes off and skinny-dipping in front of the whole cast, I was there the very first time it happened. I was like, 'woo-hoo'. He was like, 'come on.' All of us were like, 'No. You're on your own in this one, man.' And off he went into the water, butt-naked."
(Source: Today)

Evangeline: I noticed, they (writers) watch who connectst in real life, on the cast and the next thing you know, two people who become really good friends in real life suddenly on the show they connect.

Evaneline: For example, Matthew Fox and I had a lot of conversations at the beginning of the show about how we felt about this blooming romance that you saw in the pilot, and both of us agreed that if you were to take a real-life scenario and we were dealing with the plane crash, the monster or whatever it was, survival and all of the factors that we had to face, that romance wouldn’t even occur to us for at least the first, what, month?

Evangeline said handsome co-star Matthew Fox who plays Dr Jack thinks "I'm weird because three or four times we've been filming in the bushes and I've relieved myself within 15 feet of him. I'm like 'OK, I have about 30 seconds before they call action and I gotta pee - I'm goin'!'"

Evangeline: "After a night out with the cast I was the first to jump in to the water, fully clothed but then I heard everyone cheering back on the beach and all I saw was Matt running to the water with his butt for the world to see."
You guys are on a diserted tropical island full of drop death gorgeous people, don't you think the viewers expect more sex?

Evangeline: I think our real fans aren't really looking for sex. Before we started shooting, me an Matthew discussed it, and we agreed on it. Sex is the last thing on your mind after you crash. You're so busy collecting food, making shelters that you don't even notice that there's a hot guy next to you but at the same time, the characters feel at ease, and it's really normal that people feel like having sex.

Kirsten: In the original scrips Matthew Fox his character was killed off. and it was just you. how did you felt when you read that?
Evangeline: "Holy crap. It was scarry. it was really scary. I remember when they brought Matthew in. I was so relieved. Because i'm not prepared to carry a show. I don't know if i can even be a supporting character on the show, let along carry and be the lead of a show. And Matthew... has been a godsend. I mean he has absolutely stepped up to the plate. He is MY leading man and...in so many more ways than just on the show. I mean he's been a friend and a mentor and a big brother... and a support and a teacher. He's just really carried me through it."
(Source: LOST premier on the beach)

//What's with the skinny-dipping?
Fox: I like to take my clothes off. What can I say?
You know, we're in Hawaii. I mean, I've always been somebody who enjoys warm-water conditions
and instigating other people to skinny-dip. I think it's fun and an experience in trust and bonding.
Lilly: To give him credit, he started out as a Lone Ranger.
Over time, he has actually had some converts — people have opened up and trusted him enough to strip down.
And now, most of the cast get naked and go swimming together.
(Source)

In the shadow of a crooked tree, Matthew Fox (Jack) and Evangeline Lilly (Kate) bat away hungry gnats dive-bombing their glistening skin.
(Source: Entertainment Weekly magazine)

'Everyone should be wondering what the hell is going on,'' explains Fox during a break. ''Has Jack been converted by the Others? Drugged? Is he pretending? All sorts of scenarios could be happening here.'' (At that moment, Evangeline Lilly a.k.a. Kate — buzzes by and interjects: ''Don't believe a word he says. He's a liar!'').
(Entertainment Weekly)