Top 179 Quotes & Sayings by Luke Evans - Page 2

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.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm basically turning my apartment into an armory.

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

I've played quite a few good guys.

I guess maybe directors see a face that seems to have been lived in. I know that my face has been lived in, yeah.

I don't carry off 'quirky.'

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

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.

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

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.

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 had a very difficult upbringing.

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

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.

You have to give everything to every job you do.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

When I was focusing on theater, I would go on for months without any work and could hardly pay the rent.

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.

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

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.

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.

I feel that New Zealand is my second home.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.