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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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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 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 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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Money is the longest route to happiness.
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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 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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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 try my very hardest to remember that I don't have to be anything but Evangeline. That's all that's expected of me. And if I try to be more or less, I will fall flat on my face. So if I just continue to hold my head high and keep myself in check, I'm being who I was born to be.
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As an actress, and as a person, I really admire Diane Keaton. She's feisty, strong, beautiful and talented, and intelligent.
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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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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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I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.
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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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In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.
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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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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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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've had to find my sanity.
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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 know I can never work in a comedy because I can't keep a goddamn straight face.
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Even though I'm resting I'm accomplishing something by sewing that shirt that I've been meaning to sew for weeks. And it's relaxing. It's so very meditative and quiet and enjoyable. But at least I'm producing something. I'm being productive in some way. I have a very hard time being completely idle.
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