Luke Evans Quotes
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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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I understand, certain scenes have to have a lot of takes. As an actor, I think it's quite nice to have a handful of takes, because you don't want to do it once or twice; I think once or twice sometimes is quite terrifying because you don't really feel like you've given them what you want.
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I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy.
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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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I've played quite a few good guys.
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I think sandals should be burnt. I hate them - purge them!
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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.
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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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It's just hard to get an independent film made.
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I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.
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I really loved 'Fast Five.' I thought it was a brilliant movie. I thought it was so well done, well directed. The action sequences were really well thought out. It looked fantastic.
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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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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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When I'm training hard, the diet is miserable.
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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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You can read 50 great things about yourself, but the one bad thing will be what you remember most.
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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'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 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 see enough theatre.
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I'm not one of those superstitious people.
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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 feel that New Zealand is my second home.