Luke Evans Quotes
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To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford them.
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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.
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I don't comment on other people's opinion.
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People come up to me in pubs - gay pubs, mind you - and can't believe that I'm gay.
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In all honesty, I should have given up this acting lark years ago.
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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.
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Sometimes I eat at, like, 9:30 at night and then go to bed at 10:30 and wake up at 4:00.
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I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals.
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You can read 50 great things about yourself, but the one bad thing will be what you remember most.
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When I was focusing on theater, I would go on for months without any work and could hardly pay the rent.
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Peter Jackson is a wonderful man. He's a great director. He's found his niche in life.
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I've always had quite long canines. It's a very strange thing. My parents don't have them.
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If you're gonna start a story, you start from the beginning, right?
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I love to sit down on a beanbag at the end of the day and watch my fish. It's therapeutic, isn't it? They're alive, and I'm keeping them alive. I like the responsibility.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not one of those superstitious people.
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I guess maybe directors see a face that seems to have been lived in. I know that my face has been lived in, yeah.
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I don't need to be super-ripped all year round. That's a pretty miserable way to live your life.
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A longbow takes a massive draw for the arrow to go anywhere.