Top 100 Luke Evans Quotes
#1. British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it.
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#3. I think the best directors provide you with a safe environment where they can instill you with confidence and allow you to try things out and not feel like you're failing or that you're doing it wrong.
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#4. I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals.
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#6. Peter Jackson is a wonderful man. He's a great director. He's found his niche in life.
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#7. Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.
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#8. Vampires were always able to transform into creatures of the night. The dark creatures like bats have always been associated with vampires and using the darkness to their own advantage.
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#9. If I have to look a certain way for something, I know how long it's going to take me do it.
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#10. For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.
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#11. I understand, certain scenes have to have a lot of takes. As an actor, I think it's quite nice to have a handful of takes, because you don't want to do it once or twice; I think once or twice sometimes is quite terrifying because you don't really feel like you've given them what you want.
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#12. I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.
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#13. Before the 'Fast & Furious' promo in Manila, I went on a vacation in the Philippines 10 years earlier. I loved it. My 'Miss Saigon' friends showed me around.
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#14. To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford them.
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#15. It is a very beautiful story, 'The Crow.' It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes.
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#16. One funny thing is, though, I wear my watch on my right hand and I'm actually right-handed. People always wonder why - I don't know myself, I've just always done it that way and I like it the way a good watch fits on my right wrist.
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#17. I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.
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#18. I've played quite a few good guys.
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#19. In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but not in cinema.
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#20. I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.
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#21. I wouldn't say being in a film with The Rock was 'motivating.' 'Terrifying' would be a more accurate description.
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#22. I've had letters from people who have read my articles and said, 'I'm a guy, I'm 18, and I've not come out to my mom and dad yet, but it was so nice to hear your story, and you know, I wish your article would have been longer, because you gave me hope for the future.'
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#23. I'm this dude that can play a farmhand and a handyman and sometimes a Greek god.
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#24. And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is.
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#25. For my part, if the audience wanted to see Dracula again, I would be happy to reprise the role. It is an immortal character that can appear anywhere because it lies beyond time. Possibilities are endless.
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#26. In theater, you sometimes can only do one or two jobs a year because they're long periods. In film, you can shoot so many. It's quite interesting.
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#27. I think sandals should be burnt. I hate them - purge them!
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#28. Basically, Apollo was more of a mediator between Zeus in Olympus and Perseus on Earth. He played much more of an active role.
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#29. When I didn't get a job, I thought, 'Don't worry, there'll be another one.' I still live by that now. Nothing really fazes me any more.
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#30. I had a role in 'Crossroads' when I was about 21, and then I went on to perform in 'Small Change' and then 'Piaf' in the Donmar Warehouse, London, and it was when I was there that some casting directors spotted me.
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#31. Wales is blessed with some truly magnificent castles, full of history and a must see for visitors.
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#33. You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap.
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#34. I don't need to be super-ripped all year round. That's a pretty miserable way to live your life.
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#35. I would love to be able to tap dance.
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#36. I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy.
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#37. I certainly didn't want to make another movie that's 'just another Dracula film.'
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#38. I do like Jason Statham as a person and as an actor. I think he's a great performer, and he delivers every time.
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#39. It was never really part of my plan to be in films; it was really sort of a dream.
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#40. To be able to work with people who I have respected and admired, to be a part of something like the Cannes Film Festival, is surreal and brilliant.
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#41. And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.
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#42. Gemma Arterton in 'The Master Builder' at the Almeida - she was absolutely brilliant. Ibsen is difficult and quite hard to follow, but she just brings the stage to life.
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#43. I've had some pretty awful jobs that I don't miss, like working on a nightclub door, or compiling VIP lists at 3 A.M. in the morning, but sometimes it's just got to be done.
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#44. Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide.
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#45. I just love the sound of a black woman's voice.
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#46. Directing is something I've sort of always felt like I'd like to do at one point, and I thought the best way to start it is to write something myself or with someone and I'd go from there. My own material.
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#47. From the big mountains in the north to the valleys in the south, all through my childhood and teenage years, my family would always holiday in Wales.
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#48. It's just hard to get an independent film made.
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#49. A watch is a fashion statement, and it says something about the person wearing it.
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#50. I don't think you should spend that much time in the gym. Don't sit around between sets too long. If you want to burn some calories, keep the sets tight. Give yourself 30 seconds to a minute between each set. Supersetting is brilliant.
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#51. The truth of the matter is roles like James Bond are the ones that I look up to as probably the best roles ever to play. So that's probably my ultimate goal one day: to play James Bond.
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#52. My style is determined by the mood, the period and the circumstances which I'm going through in a given moment.
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#53. I guess maybe directors see a face that seems to have been lived in. I know that my face has been lived in, yeah.
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#54. I love to sit down on a beanbag at the end of the day and watch my fish. It's therapeutic, isn't it? They're alive, and I'm keeping them alive. I like the responsibility.
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#55. I've always had quite long canines. It's a very strange thing. My parents don't have them.
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#56. When I'm training hard, the diet is miserable.
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#57. It's hard work just being on set 14 hours a day.
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#58. I always wanted to sing, as a child.
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#59. I'm basically turning my apartment into an armory.
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#60. Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.
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#62. I don't comment on other people's opinion.
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#63. Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool.
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#64. I moved to Cardiff when I was 17 and never needed a car. When I came to L.A. for my first job there, I needed a car, so I had to pass my driving test.
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#65. I look in the mirror, and I don't mind what I see.
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#66. When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.
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#67. For one movie, I'm learning to play a violin, and I had never picked up a violin in my life. That's a big challenge. That's what I see as one of the advantages of this business. You get to do things you'd never do, in a normal lifestyle.
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#68. It was very weird because for a long time no one really recognised me from my films, but 'The Hobbit' has totally changed that, and I've had some really special moments, especially with youngsters.
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#69. There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.
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#70. It's good for people to look at me and think, 'This guy is doing his thing and enjoying what he's doing and successful at it and living his life.' And that's what I'm doing, and I'm very happy.
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#71. I do love action films and I hope I'm going to do many more and learn lots of new crafts 'cause that's the joy of movies.
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#72. In all honesty, I should have given up this acting lark years ago.
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#73. People want to hear your stories about these wonderful experiences you have, and that's what press tours are for.
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#74. I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits from other directors, and you know the way that you would like to be directed.
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#75. Good suits don't come from anywhere, though - I mainly wear Armani, Louis Vuitton and Burberry.
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#76. The percentage of people that go to drama college in the U.K. is probably just like anywhere in the world. It's a very hard business to work in. They say that, at any one time, there's only 5% of actors in the world that are actually working and getting paid, which is a shocking percentage, really.
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#77. If you ask an actor what he'd prefer to act on, he'd probably say a tangible, real set, or even better, a real location out on a mountainside or by a river. It's just easier because you don't have to imagine anything.
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#78. I always wanted to get into proper shape.
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#79. I did use my own accent in a play once. It's a very freeing, liberating experience. Actors are often asked to adopt a different accent, and sometimes a different voice, so when that's taken away and you don't have to think about it, that's a lovely thing.
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#80. You can read 50 great things about yourself, but the one bad thing will be what you remember most.
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#81. I don't necessarily pay extreme attention to what I wear on a daily basis, but I do love to wear something special for an important occasion or when I feel happy.
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#82. The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience.
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#83. I've dabbled in period films in my career, and I've enjoyed each one.
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#84. 'The Desolation of Smaug' stands alone as an action/adventure epic movie. It's visually stunning, and the 3D is incredible. Plus, it's directed by Peter Jackson, and he's extraordinary.
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#85. It's nice to be part of something that could grow into something else and be there at the beginning of it.
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#86. Most of the time, you do films and they can be big films, but you are rarely aware of the fan base that comes with it.
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#87. I think starting a cinema career late in life has more advantages than disadvantages.
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#88. Every time you get in shape for a role, there's a different way to do it so it doesn't get boring.
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#89. One thing Tolkien does incredibly well - and this is from a lay person's point of view; I am not scholar or anything - is that you don't have to make an effort to envisage the worlds that he writes about.
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#90. It's a lot of fun being dressed by designers and surrounded by publicists.
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#91. A guy's biggest style mistake is definitely trying to look too cool. As long as you've got a good pair of jeans, a good pair of boots and a few good shirts, you're fine.
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#92. There are certain films you want to see on the big screen.
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#93. I feel that New Zealand is my second home.
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#94. When I was focusing on theater, I would go on for months without any work and could hardly pay the rent.
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#95. Sometimes I eat at, like, 9:30 at night and then go to bed at 10:30 and wake up at 4:00.
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#96. I'm not a 'Twilight' boy; I'll never be as good looking as those lads, and that's fair enough.
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#97. I have seen 'Fast Six,' and it's awesome.
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#98. You never get over an ex, but you learn to live with it.
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#99. The gym is somewhere you can go to just forget for an hour what you do for a living, what you are doing on a daily basis. You just turn up and get on with it.
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#100. I'm not one of those superstitious people.
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