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My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished.

Evangeline Lilly

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Evangeline Lilly
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: August 3
Actor
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Film Actress
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Nicole Evangeline Lilly
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I think one of the things that is easy to have happened in a superhero story is that the female character, whether she be a heroine or not, can often be the wart on the man.
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To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.
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If your home is peaceful, then you're going to go out in your day peacefully.
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When I was young I was soft spoken and a little bit timid and passive. My dream then was to be a ballerina or a figure skater - something very delicate.
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I can still go grocery shopping and not get mobbed. But when I was in South Africa this summer, I had people asking for autographs, and that scared me.
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There is a little bit of evil in all of us, and it's very easy to draw that out.
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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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A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on Lost.
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My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.
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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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I adore having people over to my home. My number one reason I love that is because I love to see people at ease with each other.
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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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Nature inspires us. Not being able to reach out and touch it, or see it, makes me get really antsy.
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People initially think I'm a snob because I'm intensely private.
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I just wanted friends. I just wanted people to like me. I just wanted for things to be simple and good. So, for five years I actively sought out mediocrity.
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The way I've been able to embrace fame is by realizing that celebrity is just a means to send whatever message you want out into the world.
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There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil or sun, coal or wind, gas or algae, the economy will be stimulated by the investment. The economy, unlike each of us, is not swayed by ideology.
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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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The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life.
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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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