Luke Evans Quotes
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.
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A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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Family hang-outs can go very late into the night and involve lots of music.
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I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.
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I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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Eventually you get bored and you want to work.
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Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival.
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Kids feel like they have to puff up or shrink. These reclusive qualities begin to develop because you feel that who you are is going to either be accepted or rejected by your family and friends.
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I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA.
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
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I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?
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You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
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Writing is the beast unto itself.
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You don't get a script sent to you for two years, it crosses your mind, 'Gee, what's going on?' Then five years pass, and pretty soon a decade has gone by. Finally, you say to yourself, 'Well, if in fact that's it, then let me be happy with 30 pictures that made about $460 million and pictures that made a lot of people laugh.'
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I've gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it's straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble.
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I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.
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There's nothing that compares to being in a band with your best friends. We're so comfortable together, we understand each other. It feels, like, normal. Whereas solo period felt like I was trying to be something, and play a role, and pretend.
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I'm a physician first and foremost. I will always be a physician.
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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.
