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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My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.
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You've got the North Koreans building weapons; you got the Iranians building weapons. You've got - the Pakistanis already have at least 100 nuclear weapons. Do you think there's any serious effort in this country to come to grips with that?
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The public is very forgiving. So we're not trying to obtain some level of perfection that can't be obtained. But if you're straightforward and honest and your constituents trust you, they'll help you get through the times when you fall short.
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Some of the subject matter is a little less weighty. When we were writing for Mr. Show, we were talking about how is this going to stand up to the test of time. Every little piece had to be this brilliant comedy jewel.
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I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought it together. It reminds me of her.
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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.
