Evangeline Lilly Quotes

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Evangeline Lilly

Profession : Actress

Birth : August 3, 1979

Life is magically beautiful. And it brings you what is perfect.

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Peter Jackson has just really earned the right to be Tolkien's torchbearer on screen.

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'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.

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I'm a pretty skeptical person, and I'm a realistic person.

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People were fed up with reality shows about midgets getting married and weird Jerry Springer talk shows. There had been a real dry spell of intelligent family-oriented viewing: the type of program that Mom, Dad and the kids can all watch together. With 'Lost,' there are just so many characters for people to invest in.

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In high school, people wanted to find the worst in me.

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I say no to photographs. When people take my picture, I feel like they've taken a piece of me, and I can't get that back. It's soul-draining.

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Somebody could take a picture of me from across the room, and I would feel like I wanted to rip their face off.

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I've had to find my sanity.

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I've been careful what I've put my name to.

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I'm not a girl who needs to put on a whole face of make-up before I leave the house.

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There are so many roles on TV that I don't covet. I see them, and I'm glad I don't have to play them.

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I hated being a flight attendant. I did it for a month and then quit.

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I lived in grass huts in a jungle in the Philippines for three weeks with tribal people.

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I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.

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'Why are we here?' 'What is our purpose? 'Is there an afterlife?' 'Is there a God?' 'Is it all about science?' Those are big questions, and usually, TV is a little scared to go there.

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In every one of the 'Squickerwonker' books, we will explore a new Squickerwonker character and their vice and how their vice generally leads to their undoing.

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I think I can allow myself one child - and from then on, I think I would have to adopt. It makes sense not to add to the population problem.

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I do feel like I'm at ease in my own skin when I find an androgynous balance.

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If you are not a clearly defined human being, it is very hard to define your image... What I've realized in my own journey in fashion is that I'm not that defined.

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