Luke Evans Quotes

I don't need to be super-ripped all year round. That's a pretty miserable way to live your life.

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.

There are certain films you want to see on the big screen.

Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.

I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad.

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.

Singing seems to be inherent in Filipino, just as it is in my race. That's why I have this affinity with Filipinos.

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.

Each form of the acting is different. I think it keeps your mind active. TV, film and theater are different disciplines, as are independent films, opposed to studio films. There are differences in the size and the genre, or a period drama as opposed to a contemporary drama, or the types of characters.

Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.

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.

I always wanted to sing, as a child.

Miranda Kerr is absolutely lovely.

My style is determined by the mood, the period and the circumstances which I'm going through in a given moment.

A longbow takes a massive draw for the arrow to go anywhere.

It's nice to be part of something that could grow into something else and be there at the beginning of it.

If I have to look a certain way for something, I know how long it's going to take me do it.

The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished.

I'm basically turning my apartment into an armory.

There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.

I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy.

Basically, Apollo was more of a mediator between Zeus in Olympus and Perseus on Earth. He played much more of an active role.

Costume is a massive thing. I think costume makes you stand differently.

I'd like to make a film musical. That's really my dream.

I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals.

Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide.

I look in the mirror, and I don't mind what I see.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It was never really part of my plan to be in films; it was really sort of a dream.

Sometimes I eat at, like, 9:30 at night and then go to bed at 10:30 and wake up at 4:00.

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.

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.

You don't want to play the same roles or do the same genre.

My trainer is with me all day. We train before I come to work, and then I just keep training all day.

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.'

I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed.

Good suits don't come from anywhere, though - I mainly wear Armani, Louis Vuitton and Burberry.

Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool.

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.

I was often looked at as a leper by kids at school because I was a Jehovah's Witness. They didn't like it - you were 'weird'. And on Saturday mornings, you'd be knocking at their doors. I remember standing there with my mum and dad, thinking, 'Oh my God, I know whose door this is, and I'll have to see them on Monday.' It was terrible.

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.

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.

People want to hear your stories about these wonderful experiences you have, and that's what press tours are for.

It's hard work just being on set 14 hours a day.

It's a lovely thing to be able to sing.

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.

You have to give everything to every job you do.

I think starting a cinema career late in life has more advantages than disadvantages.

In all honesty, I should have given up this acting lark years ago.

British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it.

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.

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.

The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience.

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.

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.

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.

If you train too much, it can rule your life, and I don't think that's healthy - for men or women.

You can read 50 great things about yourself, but the one bad thing will be what you remember most.

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.

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.

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.

When I'm training hard, the diet is miserable.

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.

You never get over an ex, but you learn to live with it.

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.

I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

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.

If you're gonna start a story, you start from the beginning, right?

I'm not a 'Twilight' boy; I'll never be as good looking as those lads, and that's fair enough.

I don't comment on other people's opinion.

I don't carry off 'quirky.'

And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.

I think sandals should be burnt. I hate them - purge them!

I've always had quite long canines. It's a very strange thing. My parents don't have them.

It is a very beautiful story, 'The Crow.' It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes.

A watch is a fashion statement, and it says something about the person wearing it.

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.

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.

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.

I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.

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.

I don't see enough theatre.

I wouldn't say being in a film with The Rock was 'motivating.' 'Terrifying' would be a more accurate description.

Every time you get in shape for a role, there's a different way to do it so it doesn't get boring.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

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.

I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.

I was bullied at school, so I didn't much like it.

I certainly didn't want to make another movie that's 'just another Dracula film.'

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.