A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on Lost. Evangeline Lilly More Quotes by Evangeline Lilly More Quotes From Evangeline Lilly I changed jobs like I changed shirts. It was something I just like to do - I like trying my hand at everything. Evangeline Lilly trying jobs hands Originally, I wanted to do humanitarian work. I actually feel that getting into acting, which fate has led me to, is my window and path into humanitarian work. I always said I want to do something important. And I feel this work is what's helping me get there. Evangeline Lilly fate acting important I think my style is very eclectic, because I love so many different things. And, that's true, too, in almost every aspect of my life. I can go from really edgy to tailored and professional, and I just love to change things up. Evangeline Lilly style different thinking I read every single letter. Some just break my heart. I've cried over letters that have come in, from young women and older women alike, saying to me, "You know, you made me want to stop crash dieting and just be healthy. You are my role model. I want to be like you." Evangeline Lilly role-models healthy heart 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. Evangeline Lilly canada disappear want When I am doing things around the house - when I'm decorating, setting up furniture, putting out a vase of flowers, lighting my candles, my mind is always thinking, "What do I need to do to make this space peaceful and restful and comfortable so that when people walk into it, aesthetically they're heightened and enlightened?" Evangeline Lilly space flower thinking 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. Evangeline Lilly home numbers people 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. Evangeline Lilly home night beach 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. Evangeline Lilly good-woman dying soul 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. Evangeline Lilly making-a-difference differences people 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. Evangeline Lilly army house hands If you watch a film from beginning to end, with no women in it, it's really difficult. Evangeline Lilly film ends watches 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. Evangeline Lilly and-love jobs people 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. Evangeline Lilly faults independent strong I tended to be a solitary young girl, and I still am. I would like to find a quiet corner and color in my coloring book. When I think back, I made that corner mine, not really caring about the rest of the house. Evangeline Lilly girl caring book When I was little, I attended five different elementary schools. My parents are very restless people, which is probably where I get my own nomadic lifestyle from. Evangeline Lilly parent people school 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. Evangeline Lilly tired cutting thinking I wasn't actually going to see the original film [Lord of the Ring], because I didn't think it was possible that a film could represent the books appropriately. So I was protesting, and I wasn't going to see them. And then my family all took a jaunt together, the entire family, to see the movies, and were like, "What, you're just going to stay home?" So I saw the movies and was thoroughly impressed that Peter Jackson managed to make my vision of the book come to life, as well as my sister's and my father's, and my aunt's and my uncle's, everyone's. Evangeline Lilly uncles father book I like ambiguity. I think it's so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person. Evangeline Lilly evil play thinking 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. Evangeline Lilly hate laughing people
