Top 179 Quotes & Sayings by Luke Evans
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Welsh actor Luke Evans.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
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.
And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.
It's just hard to get an independent film made.
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.
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 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.
There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.
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.
The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished.
My style is determined by the mood, the period and the circumstances which I'm going through in a given moment.
You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap.
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.
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.
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.
When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.
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.
Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.
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.
I'm not one of those superstitious people.
Good suits don't come from anywhere, though - I mainly wear Armani, Louis Vuitton and Burberry.
Basically, Apollo was more of a mediator between Zeus in Olympus and Perseus on Earth. He played much more of an active role.
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.
Miranda Kerr is absolutely lovely.
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.
I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad.
I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.
I don't see enough theatre.
I always wanted to sing, as a child.
I think sandals should be burnt. I hate them - purge them!
It is a very beautiful story, 'The Crow.' It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes.
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 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 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.
British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it.
There are certain films you want to see on the big screen.
I certainly didn't want to make another movie that's 'just another Dracula film.'
I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy.
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.
'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.
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.
Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool.
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.
I've dabbled in period films in my career, and I've enjoyed each one.
I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed.
I do like Jason Statham as a person and as an actor. I think he's a great performer, and he delivers every time.
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.
People want to hear your stories about these wonderful experiences you have, and that's what press tours are for.
It was never really part of my plan to be in films; it was really sort of a dream.
I'd like to make a film musical. That's really my dream.
A guy's biggest style mistake is definitely trying to look too cool. As long as you've got a good pair of jeans, a good pair of boots and a few good shirts, you're fine.
I would love to be able to tap dance.
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.
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.
I have seen 'Fast Six,' and it's awesome.
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.
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.
To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford them.
Wales is blessed with some truly magnificent castles, full of history and a must see for visitors.
Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.
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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