Evangeline Lilly Quotes

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Evangeline Lilly

Profession : Actress

Birth : August 3, 1979

That's what happens in Hollywood. People are like, 'I want to hate you, because everyone else seems to love you.' But the reality is this: I'm a simple person who's not interested in attention and who just wants to go about her business.

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I'm allergic to Hawaii. Everything there makes me react in some way.

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

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I'm good at looking good with weapons and stunts. But if you put a bull's eye in front of me and asked me to hit it, I'd say the chances of me hitting it are about one in a million!

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I'm the kind of person who, if I were living in another time, if I had to pick any time, I would probably be a pioneer. I just love the simplicity of what it means to work hard with your hands - to eat and survive.

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When I act, I come away drained. When I write, I come away energized.

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I'm very picky when it comes to men. I come across a man who I'm really attracted to about once every five years.

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I love being outside - that's where I'm the happiest.

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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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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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I always wear something slightly masculine.

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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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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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A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on 'Lost.'

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I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.

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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 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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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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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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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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