Luke Evans Quotes

I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.

A guy's biggest style mistake is definitely trying to look too cool. As long as you've got a good pair of jeans, a good pair of boots and a few good shirts, you're fine.

For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.

Good suits don't come from anywhere, though - I mainly wear Armani, Louis Vuitton and Burberry.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

I probably wanted to be a shopkeeper, because I like tills.

Sometimes it's not about the size of your role, it's about the machine that you're part of.

And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.

When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.

In 10 years, I’d love to live near the sea, in a warmer climate. I could see myself with three dogs…and it’d be great to share them with someone else.

Well usually if I'm having a sh***y day, I don't post anything. I don't go out just to tell everyone I'm having a great day, even if I'm not.

Directing is something I've sort of always felt like I'd like to do at one point and I thought the best way to start it is to write something myself or with someone and I'd go from there.

To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford them.

I'm very, very close to my mum and dad. My mum is only nineteen years older than me, so she could be my older sister, which is really nice.

I think it's a slippery slope to fabricate a different life.

I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.

I'm an only child. My mum and dad are six in each family. They're both twins, and they only wanted one. I always say to them though that they're lucky - it could have all gone wrong.

I do love action films and I hope I'm going to do many more and learn lots of new crafts 'cause that's the joy of movies.

Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.

I think sandals should be burnt. I hate them - purge them!

I don't think a lot of people know that I can sing. It's not common knowledge.

When I was younger, I never had that fascination.

I always wanted to sing, as a child.

I stay away from Speedos. That would cause me absolutely unnecessary publicity.

If you look weird, you can blame the role, you know? So no one's going to tell me I'm having a mid-life crisis.

When you're working, you're flying on someone else's buck. When you're flying on your own, you sort of go, 'You know what, I'd rather keep the dosh in my pocket to spend when I get there.

The gym is somewhere you can go to just forget for an hour what you do for a living, what you are doing on a daily basis. You just turn up and get on with it.

I started doing [acting] for a living, no one really warned me about the amount of traveling I would do. I always thought everything was shot in Los Angeles.

Not everybody's a great singer, but people can get better at singing. There's great singing teachers out there. It's a muscle, you just have to train it.

It must be weird having one child.

Look at social media. It's what we do, right?

I'm quite good at switching off and sometimes I forget who I am in a character.

It's nice to be part of something that could grow into something else and be there at the beginning of it.

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.

It's just nice to do something a bit different, and I guess when you're an actor, you have the license to do that.

Sometimes I comment, but you have to be careful because if you do it for one, everybody wants you to say something.

It's quite clear if you look at the actors in film right now, some of them came from theater but they didn't come from musical theater. There's still a bit of a stigma attached to it I would say.

If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at the end of the day.

You've got to be in the moment and respond to what you're feeling. I try to simplify it as much as possible.

'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.

I used to take my car and go down to the South Island for five or six days and climb glaciers and jump out of planes and jump off bridges and go white water rafting - a bit of thrill-seeking.

I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad.

When I'm training hard, the diet is miserable.

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.

Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool.