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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
Model
Nicole Evangeline Lilly
Wisdom
Beauty
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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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There is a little bit of evil in all of us, and it's very easy to draw that out.
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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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For me there's a need for balance - fulfilling the sensitive side, letting my guard down, holding back the warrior in me. And I have to be vulnerable which is very hard for me to do.
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If your home is peaceful, then you're going to go out in your day peacefully.
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I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.
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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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Nature inspires us. Not being able to reach out and touch it, or see it, makes me get really antsy.
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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 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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My home is my castle, and I spend a lot of time nurturing it, redecorating - moving this and adjusting that, adding flowers and candles.
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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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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 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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People initially think I'm a snob because I'm intensely private.
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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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I'm surrounded by people who care about me and love me. I have a great job. I have wonderful roommates who take care of me. I have a family who adores me.
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My valentine is always my dad.
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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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