Top 100 Luke Evans Quotes
#1. Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide.
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#2. I've always had quite long canines. It's a very strange thing. My parents don't have them.
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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. A watch is a fashion statement, and it says something about the person wearing it.
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#9. I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script.
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#10. It's just hard to get an independent film made.
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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. I just love the sound of a black woman's voice.
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#14. As much as my parents were worried about me moving to London at 17, they could see that I was hungry to find my path. And it probably helped that they saw me succeeding at it, slowly but surely.
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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. It was never really part of my plan to be in films; it was really sort of a dream.
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#20. I used to take my car and go down to the South Island for five or six days and climb glaciers and jump out of planes and jump off bridges and go white water rafting - a bit of thrill-seeking.
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#21. 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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#22. There are certain tuxes you can get away with a black tie, but with others, you'd be dishonoring the workmanship if you didn't wear a full bow tie.
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#23. I certainly didn't want to make another movie that's 'just another Dracula film.'
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#24. 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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#25. I would love to be able to tap dance.
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#26. Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool.
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#27. There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.
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#28. Being involved in 'The Hobbit' has been a huge boost for me. It's really put me on the map and helped me be taken more seriously as an actor.
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#29. The truest of loves transcends even the greatest of insecurities.
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#30. It's good for your body to have a break. Even when you're training, you have to have a cheat day every week. The body reacts better to training if you give it intervals of not training, or you relax the diet.
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#31. 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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#32. Everybody knows about Peter Jackson, 'The Hobbit' movies and 'The Lord of the Rings' films being made in New Zealand, and to actually have been part of it for such a long period, to live there and to have friends that I will have for life because of that experience, is an amazing thing.
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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. I look in the mirror, and I don't mind what I see.
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#36. 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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#37. When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.
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#38. I really loved 'Fast Five.' I thought it was a brilliant movie. I thought it was so well done, well directed. The action sequences were really well thought out. It looked fantastic.
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#39. 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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#40. I don't comment on other people's opinion.
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#41. In 10 years, I'd love to live near the sea, in a warmer climate. I could see myself with three dogs ... and it'd be great to share them with someone else.
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#43. I've always said that theater was where I began, so everything I do now has a bit of my theater background in it. It was my training.
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#44. 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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#45. A longbow takes a massive draw for the arrow to go anywhere.
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#46. I'm basically turning my apartment into an armory.
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#47. I always wanted to sing, as a child.
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#48. It's hard work just being on set 14 hours a day.
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#49. I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad.
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#50. When I'm training hard, the diet is miserable.
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#51. I do not comment on my client's personal lives in the media. As for Luke, he did so once, a long time ago when he was an inexperienced, young actor and now with maturity and hindsight, he has learned not to engage the press in his personal life again.
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#52. 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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#53. Every film, every fight choreographer, wants to have a different flair, have a different fight technique. So any film I've done that involved weapons has always been fascinating because everyone is different.
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#54. It is a very beautiful story, 'The Crow.' It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes.
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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. 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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#58. Costume is a massive thing. I think costume makes you stand differently.
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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. 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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#62. 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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#63. Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.
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#64. The Sixties was all about style and a certain look. But what was interesting about 1963 was that it was pre-Beatles, so the clothes of that time, especially the suits, were very different from the clothes post-Beatlemania.
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#65. Peter Jackson is a wonderful man. He's a great director. He's found his niche in life.
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#66. I had a very difficult upbringing.
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#67. I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals.
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#68. 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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#69. I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed.
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#70. People come up to me in pubs - gay pubs, mind you - and can't believe that I'm gay.
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#71. Miranda Kerr is absolutely lovely.
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#72. I was bullied at school, so I didn't much like it.
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#73. The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished.
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#74. I'd like to make a film musical. That's really my dream.
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#75. If you decide you want to work in the film industry, you just have to bite the bullet and take other jobs until the proper jobs come in.
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#76. 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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#77. You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap.
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#79. Wales is blessed with some truly magnificent castles, full of history and a must see for visitors.
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#80. I've got two cows licks; when I was a kid, all the boys in school used to have curtains, and my hair never used to do that, ever! I always used to try, and I always looked like the geek.
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#81. You don't want to play the same roles or do the same genre.
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#82. 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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#83. 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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#84. 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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#85. It's a lovely thing to be able to sing.
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#86. I think sandals should be burnt. I hate them - purge them!
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#87. 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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#88. 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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#89. British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it.
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#90. Singing seems to be inherent in Filipino, just as it is in my race. That's why I have this affinity with Filipinos.
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#91. I'm this dude that can play a farmhand and a handyman and sometimes a Greek god.
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#92. 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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#93. You have to give everything to every job you do.
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#94. My trainer is with me all day. We train before I come to work, and then I just keep training all day.
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#95. I come from a country that lives and breathes rugby, and I didn't think there would be anywhere else in the world that could be the same. But New Zealand takes it to another dimension. It's extraordinary how much passion Kiwis have for the game.
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#96. I wouldn't say being in a film with The Rock was 'motivating.' 'Terrifying' would be a more accurate description.
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#97. I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.
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#98. 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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#99. I've played quite a few good guys.
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#100. I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.
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