Luke Evans Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
I wouldn't say being in a film with The Rock was 'motivating.' 'Terrifying' would be a more accurate description. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals. — Luke Evans
Sometimes I eat at, like, 9:30 at night and then go to bed at 10:30 and wake up at 4:00. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
People want to hear your stories about these wonderful experiences you have, and that's what press tours are for. — Luke Evans
I'm not a 'Twilight' boy; I'll never be as good looking as those lads, and that's fair enough. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
You can read 50 great things about yourself, but the one bad thing will be what you remember most. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
If you train too much, it can rule your life, and I don't think that's healthy - for men or women. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
I don't need to be super-ripped all year round. That's a pretty miserable way to live your life. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
I was a weed. Such a skinny little weed. I just couldn't put on weight; I couldn't put on muscle. I was the oddest shape. And I thought that was it: that's how I'd look for the rest of my life. And I'd beat myself up about it so much. But you change an awful lot. You're 16. Your body's not even halfway to what it'll end up being. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
It is a very beautiful story, 'The Crow.' It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
Good suits don't come from anywhere, though - I mainly wear Armani, Louis Vuitton and Burberry. — Luke Evans
I've always had quite long canines. It's a very strange thing. My parents don't have them. — Luke Evans
Every time you get in shape for a role, there's a different way to do it so it doesn't get boring. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
I've dabbled in period films in my career, and I've enjoyed each one. — Luke Evans
I just love the sound of a black woman's voice. — Luke Evans
It's hard work just being on set 14 hours a day. — Luke Evans
I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed. — Luke Evans
I look in the mirror, and I don't mind what I see. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
I would love to be able to tap dance. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
'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. — Luke Evans
I don't carry off 'quirky.' — Luke Evans
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.' — Luke Evans
Singing seems to be inherent in Filipino, just as it is in my race. That's why I have this affinity with Filipinos. — Luke Evans
I certainly didn't want to make another movie that's 'just another Dracula film.' — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford them. — Luke Evans
Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide. — Luke Evans
I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch. — Luke Evans
When I was focusing on theater, I would go on for months without any work and could hardly pay the rent. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
It's just hard to get an independent film made. — Luke Evans
I had a very difficult upbringing. — Luke Evans
I think sandals should be burnt. I hate them - purge them! — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
I'd like to make a film musical. That's really my dream. — Luke Evans
Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished. — Luke Evans
I guess maybe directors see a face that seems to have been lived in. I know that my face has been lived in, yeah. — Luke Evans
A watch is a fashion statement, and it says something about the person wearing it. — Luke Evans
You have to give everything to every job you do. — Luke Evans
It was never really part of my plan to be in films; it was really sort of a dream. — Luke Evans
If you're gonna start a story, you start from the beginning, right? — Luke Evans
The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience. — Luke Evans
My mother did like to make clothes, and in I think the worst picture I've ever seen of myself - I must have been eight or nine - she'd dressed me in a matching t-shirt and Bermuda shorts ensemble which I think looked like somebody had thrown up all over it. I was so glad when that sewing machine stopped working, I have to say. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
I think the best directors rarely lose their temper. — Luke Evans
I'm basically turning my apartment into an armory. — Luke Evans
I'm this dude that can play a farmhand and a handyman and sometimes a Greek god. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more. — Luke Evans
When I'm training hard, the diet is miserable. — Luke Evans
I always wanted to sing, as a child. — Luke Evans
You don't want to play the same roles or do the same genre. — Luke Evans
My trainer is with me all day. We train before I come to work, and then I just keep training all day. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
I do like Jason Statham as a person and as an actor. I think he's a great performer, and he delivers every time. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
I was bullied at school, so I didn't much like it. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans