Luke Evans Quotes
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You don't want to play the same roles or do the same genre.
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Wales is blessed with some truly magnificent castles, full of history and a must see for visitors.
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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.
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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.
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I look in the mirror, and I don't mind what I see.
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It was never really part of my plan to be in films; it was really sort of a dream.
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'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.
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If I have to look a certain way for something, I know how long it's going to take me do it.
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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.
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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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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.
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My trainer is with me all day. We train before I come to work, and then I just keep training all day.
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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.
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I'd like to make a film musical. That's really my dream.
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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.
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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.
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You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap.
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I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.
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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.
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There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.
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It's a lot of fun being dressed by designers and surrounded by publicists.
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I was a weed. Such a skinny little weed. I just couldn't put on weight; I couldn't put on muscle. I was the oddest shape. And I thought that was it: that's how I'd look for the rest of my life. And I'd beat myself up about it so much. But you change an awful lot. You're 16. Your body's not even halfway to what it'll end up being.
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Singing seems to be inherent in Filipino, just as it is in my race. That's why I have this affinity with Filipinos.
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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.