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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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Evangeline Lilly
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: August 3
Actor
Film Actor
Film Actress
Flight Attendant
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Nicole Evangeline Lilly
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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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There is a little bit of evil in all of us, and it's very easy to draw that out.
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As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you cant possibly please everyone.
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I was fortunate enough to be one of those stories where I was scouted on the street by somebody and actually refused to go to the agency, and was approached on different occasions and finally kind of caved and said, 'OK, I'll try it and see what happens.
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I am so glad that I get to maintain a relatively down-to-earth lifestyle.
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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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Ironically, when I hit adolescence, I was approached about modeling and acting all the time. And, for five years, I said, No, I'm not interested. I want a simple life, I don't want to be in the spotlight.
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I love being outside - that's where I'm the happiest.
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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.
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I tended to be a solitary young girl, and I still am. I would like to find a quiet corner and color in my coloring book. When I think back, I made that corner mine, not really caring about the rest of the house.
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A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on Lost.
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That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.
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I eventually want to come back to Canada, to disappear, have nobody know me, and just be a writer and do what I want to do.
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I like to be around people who make me laugh. It's one of my favorite things on a set. I hate it when people take themselves serious in a film set.
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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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My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's the only place in the house that has a beautiful lush shag rug, which is my favorite.
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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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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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Every night I bring home flowers and burn candles. And I have a real sense that home is what starts everything inside of you.
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I didn't grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn't watch TV. We didn't have a lot of magazines around.
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