62+ Luke Evans Quotes On Faith, Strictly And Jonathan Ross
Luke Evans is a Welsh actor who began his career on stage in London's West End before making his film debut in the Clash of the Titans in 2010. He is best known for his roles in the films The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Fast & Furious 6, and Beauty and the Beast. He will also star in the upcoming films Murder Mystery and The Red Sea Diving Resort. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Luke Evans on love, life, leadership.
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Top 10 Luke Evans Quotes
- I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.
- 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.
- I probably wanted to be a shopkeeper, because I like tills.
- 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.
- I think it's a slippery slope to fabricate a different life.
- I think sandals should be burnt. I hate them - purge them!
- 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 Short Quotes
- I don't think a lot of people know that I can sing. It's not common knowledge.
- I stay away from Speedos. That would cause me absolutely unnecessary publicity.
- Sometimes it's not about the size of your role, it's about the machine that you're part of.
- It must be weird having one child.
- Look at social media. It's what we do, right?
- I always wanted to sing, as a child.
- Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.
- When I was younger, I never had that fascination.
- It's just hard to get an independent film made.
- I'm quite good at switching off and sometimes I forget who I am in a character.
Luke Evans Quotes About Love
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
I think my dream would have been to be a solo artist. But it didn't work out like that, and I also love to sing lots of musical stuff; I was really good at that, I've got a big voice. I dropped into musical theater and really enjoyed it and I sang for about nine years of my career. — Luke Evans
And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more. — Luke Evans
Luke Evans Quotes About Life
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
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
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
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
I never had a magazine, I never listened to a certain band. Actually, I was listening to bands from the '60s and '70s with my dad, so I knew more about The Beatles than I did about what was topical in my life. — Luke Evans
For one movie, I'm learning to play a violin, and I had never picked up a violin in my life. That's a big challenge. That's what I see as one of the advantages of this business. You get to do things you'd never do, in a normal lifestyle. — Luke Evans
Luke Evans Famous Quotes And Sayings
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
To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford them. — Luke Evans
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
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
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
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
Sometimes I comment, but you have to be careful because if you do it for one, everybody wants you to say something. — Luke Evans
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
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
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
It's nice to be part of something that could grow into something else and be there at the beginning of it. — Luke Evans
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
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
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. — Luke Evans
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
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
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
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
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
I think the best directors rarely loose their temper. I think the best directors provide you with a safe environment where they can instill you with confidence and allow you to try things out and not feel like your failing or that you're doing it wrong. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
You can over complicate everything with techniques; when you're in the moment, you have to feel that you are that character, that you're feeling the pain or the happiness or whatever it is that they're feeling in that moment. Usually the authenticity will manifest itself. — Luke Evans
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
I'm not saying every musical theater actor can do film or television, but a lot of them can. A lot of them are brilliant actors who absolutely don't need to sing to prove their ability and don't get the opportunity. — Luke Evans
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
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
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
When you audition for something you do feel a little bit more legit. It's a validation that you are the right person for the job because they've chosen and they've seen you do something connected to that role. — Luke Evans
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
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
I think I sort of realized it was an international thing when we went to South Korea for The Fast [and the Furious] 6 premiere. We knew nothing about South Korea, and we came through the sliding doors [at the airport] with my luggage and there were like 60 fans with Luketeer banners: "We're your Korea Luketeers." It was like, wow, this is amazing. — Luke Evans
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. — Luke Evans
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
Life Lessons by Luke Evans
- Luke Evans is a great example of how hard work and dedication to your craft can pay off. He started out in musical theatre and worked his way up to starring in major Hollywood films.
- He also shows that it is possible to pursue multiple passions at once, as he has a successful music career alongside his acting.
- Finally, his story serves as a reminder to never give up on your dreams, no matter how challenging they may seem.
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