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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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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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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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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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I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.
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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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I like to be around people who make me laugh. It's one of my favorite things on a set. I hate it when people take themselves serious in a film set.
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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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One of the great pleasures of working in Middle Earth is you get to be another being.
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I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have sisters, so the women rule the coop in my house.
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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 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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A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on Lost.
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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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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 actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.
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I don't know why, but the warmth and the comfort of flickering light help. And a fire, in the fireplace or on the beach, is very comforting. I think when you make something consistent and familiar, it helps. I light candles every single night in my home.
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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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Money is the longest route to happiness.
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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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I have two roommates, so it's a challenge to keep the house the way I like.
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