Evangeline Lilly Quotes

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

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I always wear something slightly masculine.
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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 love being outside - that's where I'm the happiest.
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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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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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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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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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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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The world is full of opportunities, and I want to try as many as I possibly can.
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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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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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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 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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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'm from Canada, and New Zealand feels like you took all the best bits of Canada and squished them onto a tiny island like Hawaii. I was absolutely blown away by the beauty of the South Island.
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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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