Top 80 Luke Evans Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

I’ve dabbled in period films in my career, and I’ve enjoyed each one.

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.

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

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

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

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

Miranda Kerr is absolutely lovely.

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

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’ve played quite a few good guys.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

People come up to me in pubs – gay pubs, mind you – and can’t believe that I’m gay.

‘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.

I do like Jason Statham as a person and as an actor. I think he’s a great performer, and he delivers every time.

To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have – if you could afford them.

Peter Jackson is a wonderful man. He’s a great director. He’s found his niche in life.

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.

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.

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

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.

I feel that New Zealand is my second home.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I have seen ‘Fast Six,’ and it’s awesome.

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

I’m this dude that can play a farmhand and a handyman and sometimes a Greek god.

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

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

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

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.

I’m basically turning my apartment into an armory.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I would love to be able to tap dance.

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.

I’m not one of those superstitious people.

I just love the sound of a black woman’s voice.

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

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

I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.

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 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.

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

I don’t see enough theatre.

I always wanted to get into proper shape.

I had a very difficult upbringing.

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