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Evangeline Lilly

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    Evangeline Lilly

    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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    Evangeline Lilly

    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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    Evangeline Lilly

    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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    As I grew older, I developed a very innate passion for art. I was actually pretty good at it.

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    Diets are a fool’s errand. I eat something sweet every day, whether it’s chocolate or a cookie. If I don’t, I guarantee you that there’s going to be a day every week when I’m going to stuff myself, especially if it’s PMS time.

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    Even if you're unhappy, just pretend that you're happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that, I used to think, 'I'm being fake,' but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable.

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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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    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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    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 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 am kind of prudish and I have very strict standards about how I present myself. But one of the things that I've always stood by is that women are beautiful and sexy. We shouldn't be afraid of that. [But] we need to make sure that we present that beauty and that sexiness in a way that says we are in control of our bodies. We're strong, we're classy, we're beautiful, powerful beings to be reckoned with, not victims.

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    I am so glad that I get to maintain a relatively down-to-earth lifestyle.

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    I bought almost every single thing that I furnished my house with at the Salvation Army in Hawaii. All second hand. Some of them are kind of retro, and some of them you'd never know.

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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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    I consider acting a day job - it's not my dream; it's not my be-all, end-all.

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    I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me, because they assumed things about my mental capacity or my physical willingness based on the way I look.

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    I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me.

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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 definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance.

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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 don't have the educated knowledge of what textures, colors, shapes and spaces need to be put together to make something just right. I'm learning it by trial and error, which is something that's slow going.

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    I don't know if any of you feel this way, but it's like eventually, you see a woman come on screen and you go, "Oh, thank God!" You just sort of need a break from all this testosterone, which happened, I think, in one of my films, The Hurt Locker. I was in it for like five minutes, and people were like, "You were in that movie!" And I was like, "Well, kind of." And they were like, "No, you were!" 'Cause they needed a woman!

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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 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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    I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.

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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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    Evangeline Lilly

    If Americans could choose, would they choose to work on the infrastructure for cancer-causing oil power or would they choose to work on the infrastructure for health-reviving wind power?

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    I felt like I was a good woman, a good person. But I was sinking deeper and deeper into depression, because my soul wasn't living. I was purposely holding down my soul and my spirit. It was dying inside of me.

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    If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricity - it would be style... being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.

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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 haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!

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    I have these huge, pointed ears. They're like three times the size of Orlando Bloom's ears. And I think he has ear envy, I love my ears.

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    I have to have nature around me. I love the earth and this insanely beautiful creation that we live in. I just think it's to be marveled at and appreciated. It gives us 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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    I just don't think that a lot of the time the messages we send kids prepare them for real life.

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    I just like short hair on women, I think it's cool. And I have wanted to cut my hair for very many years, but being on contract with a television show for six years prevents you from doing that, and then being on contract with a cosmetic endorsement campaign prevents you from doing that again. So for eight years, I've had to have long, flowing locks. And I was just so sick and tired of long, flowing locks, so I chopped them.

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    I just like short hair on women; I think its cool.

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    I just really like ants, and I really like science. I was interested and curious about the quantum world and the physics behind how it all works.

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    I just wanted friends. I just wanted people to like me. I just wanted for things to be simple and good. So, for five years I actively sought out mediocrity.

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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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    I like ambiguity. I think it's so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person.

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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 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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    I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.

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    I love my home. It's the only thing I really spend money on. I don't really spend a lot of money on anything else. No fancy cars. No designer clothes.

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    I love the creative end of acting. But I hate fame.

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    I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of grandeur and importance, and I wanted to be mediocre.

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    Evangeline Lilly

    I'm a good Canadian girl. I miss all that good stuff. I miss tobogganing and I miss snowboarding, but I've also learned to surf and I've become a water baby which I used to be relatively terrified of the water and I kayak all the time now and I'm able to run year round on the beach which you can't obviously do in Canada.

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    Evangeline Lilly

    I'm always changing things around. I have to change it all the time. I'm rearranging furniture and taking down paintings and putting up new ones, and buying new pieces of art.

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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.