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I am who I am and I am what I am. And it's beautiful. And it's okay even if it doesn't look like the sexiest Victoria Secret model. It also boils down to my interactions with people.

Evangeline Lilly

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Evangeline Lilly
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: August 3
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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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If your home is peaceful, then you're going to go out in your day peacefully.
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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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I love being outside - that's where I'm the happiest.
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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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I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.
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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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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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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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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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A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on Lost.
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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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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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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 love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.
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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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Outside of acting, the person that I admire the most is my mother.
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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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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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The way I've been able to embrace fame is by realizing that celebrity is just a means to send whatever message you want out into the world.
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