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I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.
Luke Evans
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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.
Luke Evans
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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.
Luke Evans
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Good suits don't come from anywhere, though - I mainly wear Armani, Louis Vuitton and Burberry.
Luke Evans
5.
It's just hard to get an independent film made.
Luke Evans
6.
Everybody has a down day, no one's perfect; no one's having the most idyllic life. I mean, I guess everybody wants to project positivity to the outside world, but if we're honest, no one's going to have 24/7 bliss.
Luke Evans
7.
I do not comment on my client's personal lives in the media. As for Luke, he did so once, a long time ago when he was an inexperienced, young actor and now with maturity and hindsight, he has learned not to engage the press in his personal life again.
Luke Evans
8.
Sometimes it's not about the size of your role, it's about the machine that you're part of.
Luke Evans
9.
The best night of my life was watching the moon turn red on an island .I think it was called the blood moon and it happens like once every - I don't know how long, but it was a beautiful night. It was a very magical moment.
Luke Evans
10.
I probably wanted to be a shopkeeper, because I like tills.
Luke Evans
11.
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.
Luke Evans
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With everything you do as an actor, you obviously know the full story. But the person watching it doesn't, necessarily. So, you just have to discipline yourself to wipe the slate clean as you go along.
Luke Evans
13.
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.
Luke Evans
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And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.
Luke Evans
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I've traveled everywhere, and it's been amazing. I used to think taking a flight was kind of a big deal, you know? I'm from the valleys of South Wales and when my family used to go on holiday, it was a big thing. Packing the bags, checking in, not losing your passport, going through customs, the X-ray machine, all that stuff used to be quite an intense thing. Now it's like catching a bus, I don't even think about it.
Luke Evans
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Every film, every fight choreographer, wants to have a different flair, have a different fight technique. So any film I've done that involved weapons has always been fascinating because everyone is different.
Luke Evans
17.
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.
Luke Evans
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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.
Luke Evans
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Each form of the acting is different. I think it keeps your mind active. TV, film and theater are different disciplines, as are independent films, opposed to studio films. There are differences in the size and the genre, or a period drama as opposed to a contemporary drama, or the types of characters.
Luke Evans
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When I was younger, I never had that fascination.
Luke Evans
21.
I don't think a lot of people know that I can sing. It's not common knowledge.
Luke Evans
22.
I think sandals should be burnt. I hate them - purge them!
Luke Evans
23.
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.
Luke Evans
24.
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.
Luke Evans
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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.
Luke Evans
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I think it's a slippery slope to fabricate a different life.
Luke Evans
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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.
Luke Evans
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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.
Luke Evans
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Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.
Luke Evans
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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.
Luke Evans
31.
I stay away from Speedos. That would cause me absolutely unnecessary publicity.
Luke Evans
32.
I always wanted to sing, as a child.
Luke Evans
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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.
Luke Evans
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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.
Luke Evans
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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.
Luke Evans
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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.
Luke Evans
37.
There's always a connection to be made whether you're playing a psychopath or whatever. It doesn't really matter; you've got to find this thing that you relate to with each character otherwise you're missing something.
Luke Evans
38.
I never followed a band, I never followed a - nothing. I think maybe it's because my mom and dad were not like that, and it was just me and mom and dad. We were very close; we spent a lot of time just together, just enjoying each other's company.
Luke Evans
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You've got to be in the moment and respond to what you're feeling. I try to simplify it as much as possible.
Luke Evans
40.
When I was playing Dracula I had to switch off from the reality and fall into this fantasy world. Otherwise I just couldn't cope with what I was doing. It's about switching off. It is about trying to flick a switch, which you have to do.
Luke Evans
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I'll tell you a little fun fact about the film, though. Me, the little boy playing Chip, Emma Thompson, and Emma Watson, all have the same birthday. We were all in on the same day and they all sang us "Happy Birthday." That will never happen in my life again: Four of us having the same birthday on the same film, and we're all in on the same day. It was an extraordinary thing.
Luke Evans
42.
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.
Luke Evans
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I've always been quite good at watching someone do something and then picking it up, so I turned that talent to watching people on the film set, and just saw how small everything was and how intimate the scenes could be.
Luke Evans
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One funny thing is, though, I wear my watch on my right hand and I'm actually right-handed. People always wonder why - I don't know myself, I've just always done it that way and I like it the way a good watch fits on my right wrist.
Luke Evans
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I'm in a fortunate position that sometimes you just get offered roles - they're not necessarily the roles you take, but to get offered a film is amazing. I think the work you've done before that is why you get it.
Luke Evans
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It must be weird having one child.
Luke Evans
47.
I'm quite good at switching off and sometimes I forget who I am in a character.
Luke Evans
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Look at social media. It's what we do, right?
Luke Evans
49.
It's never the practice to shoot the scenes in the proper order. Sometimes you shoot the final scenes of a film before you've even started the beginning. So you get good at it because you have to sort of just eliminate the memories of something you've done as an actor, which you haven't done as the character yet. But it sometimes is a bit of a mind-f**k.
Luke Evans
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On Broadway and in the United States it's very different - people crossover all the time into television. I think that we'll get there [in London] in the end, but it has to start with who comes to see you in the musical and whether they can see beyond the dancing and the singing.
Luke Evans