Luke Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.

I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.

Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.

I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.

I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.

I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.

The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students.

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.

Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people.

At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.

At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.

I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.

I'm one of the guys who wants to watch the film completely done, with special effects, sound and music, because I tend to get disappointed if I watch it not fully done.

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

My grandfather was a faith healer and medium and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.

I'm very uncomfortable about the way I look but confident as a man.

I love film. I am very blessed to be making movies.

I am quite a physical chap - I think that's why my waist and physique are pretty much the same as when I was a kid, although my chest is a lot bigger.

When a man has written a role for you that you admire, the expectations are higher.

For a boy or girl, driving cars that they love is fun.

I think woman is phenomenal, magnificent. I mean that sincerely.

Anything that I do is something that I'm passionate about and really believe in, no matter how it turns out.

I'm not really a fan of organized religion.

I think it's important how you spend your time. I try to make sure that I'm growing.

Obviously, in my twenties, a lot of downtime was spent having a good time, which I don't regret; that was what I needed to do to get some things out of my system.

You have a lot of stages as an actor.

I don't want to be that guy on some set he doesn't want to be on. It just bums everybody out.

I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.

The Auteurs have become Luke Haines. I ate their bodies, spat out the pips, and sucked up their souls.

Paradoxically, in its quest to make Americans more secure, the NSA has made American communications less secure; it has undermined the safety of the entire internet.

By the time of the GDR's demise, two in every 13 citizens were informers.

Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back at work.

McEnroe respects one guy -- himself, and that's it.

I always find that what's unique to my clinics is the credentials I bring to the table

I have been taking some classes in woodworking. It's really helpful just looking at a problem, and having a very tangible way in constructing it.

Yeah, I do get to do some theater occasionally. I don't get to do it as much as I would like to.