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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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Evangeline Lilly
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: August 3
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Nicole Evangeline Lilly
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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 am so glad that I get to maintain a relatively down-to-earth lifestyle.
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I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word feminism because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood, I want to embrace my womanhood.
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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 was a die-hard fan of these books [The Hobbit] before the films ever came out. And when I say die-hard, I wasn't the person who could speak Elvish, but I really loved them.
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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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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 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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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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Money is the longest route to happiness.
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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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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 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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My valentine is always my dad.
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I have two roommates, so it's a challenge to keep the house the way I like.
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A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on Lost.
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I think that being isolated from the Hollywood world of premieres and red carpet events was probably good for me because I could ease into those at will and by my own choice. But in other aspects, when it comes to fanfare, Hawaii is nuts and in L.A. they're all so jaded. They don't care.
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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.
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I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.
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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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