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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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Evangeline Lilly
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: August 3
Actor
Film Actor
Film Actress
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Nicole Evangeline Lilly
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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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When I got the job on 'Lost,' I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea.
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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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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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I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.
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Money is the longest route to happiness.
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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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In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.
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Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it's been an amazing experience. But I'm not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor.
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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 love being outside - that's where I'm the happiest.
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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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If your home is peaceful, then you're going to go out in your day peacefully.
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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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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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Truthfully, I love being in the jungle. I love it when the make-up artists come to set, they come equipped with dirt and sweat. I spend my days climbing trees and I can crawl out of bed and walk on set and that's exactly all I have to look like.
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I don't want everyone to think of me as just 'that kid who called Jesse Jackson a communist in middle school.' That's why I decided to become a famous actress.
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People initially think I'm a snob because I'm intensely private.
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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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The difference in my body from pre-pregnancy to post-baby was night and day. I didn't have the strength, I didn't have the flexibility, I didn't have the stamina, I didn't have the mobility. I felt like I was handicapped.
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