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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.

Evangeline Lilly

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Evangeline Lilly
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: August 3
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Nicole Evangeline Lilly
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Originally, I wanted to do humanitarian work. I actually feel that getting into acting, which fate has led me to, is my window and path into humanitarian work. I always said I want to do something important. And I feel this work is what's helping me get there.
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I consider acting a day job - it's not my dream it's not my be-all, end-all.
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I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.
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I know I can never work in a comedy because I can't keep a goddamn straight face.
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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.
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Outside of acting, the person that I admire the most is my mother.
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A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on Lost.
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I like fantasy. I like worlds where sometimes you need the special effects to make it come alive, but it's not so fun acting it.
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One of the great pleasures of working in Middle Earth is you get to be another being.
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In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.
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You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing at least one or two of them.
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I decided I wanted to be a painter, and then that moved into wanting to be an animator. By adolescence, I just wanted it to be something that was important...something that would make a difference in people's lives or leave an imprint in history.
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I'm a good Canadian girl. I miss all that good stuff. I miss tobogganing and I miss snowboarding, but I've also learned to surf and I've become a water baby which I used to be relatively terrified of the water and I kayak all the time now and I'm able to run year round on the beach which you can't obviously do in Canada.
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I think men don't know what they want, so the idea of not knowing what they're getting makes it a little easier on them.
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I started to do everything I could to succeed, but found that the more successful I became, the less people liked me.
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There's a massive part of me that can be bold and courageous...very strong and very assertive and independent, almost to a fault sometimes.
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