Luke Evans Quotes:- Luke Evans (born 15 April 1979) is a Welsh actor and singer. Evans began his career on the stage, performing in many of London’s West End productions such as Rent, Miss Saigon, and Piaf before making his film breakthrough in the Clash of the Titans 2010 remake
Inspirational Luke Evans Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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There’s a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.
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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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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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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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You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It’s not cheap.
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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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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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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.
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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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Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.
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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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It was never really part of my plan to be in films; it was really sort of a dream.
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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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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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Luke Evans Time Quotes
The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished.
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When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.
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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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‘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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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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Wales is blessed with some truly magnificent castles, full of history and a must see for visitors.
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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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Living in New Zealand, it’s like a different world – it is a different world. It’s very, very cool.
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I’ve dabbled in period films in my career, and I’ve enjoyed each one.
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I certainly didn’t want to make another movie that’s ‘just another Dracula film.’
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I’m not one of those superstitious people.
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It is a very beautiful story, ‘The Crow.’ It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes.
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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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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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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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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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A longbow takes a massive draw for the arrow to go anywhere.
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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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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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I wouldn’t say being in a film with The Rock was ‘motivating.’ ‘Terrifying’ would be a more accurate description.
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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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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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If you train too much, it can rule your life, and I don’t think that’s healthy – for men or women.
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I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they’re on fire and save people in hospitals.
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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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Famous Luke Evans Quotes
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.
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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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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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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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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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Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide.
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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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I think starting a cinema career late in life has more advantages than disadvantages.
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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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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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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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I’m basically turning my apartment into an armory.
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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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You can read 50 great things about yourself, but the one bad thing will be what you remember most.
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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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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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Top Luke Evans Quotations And Sayings
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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