Luke Evans Quotes

Luke George Evans is a Welsh actor. Evans began his career on the stage, performing in many of London's West End productions such as Rent, Miss Saigon, and Piaf before making his film breakthrough in the Clash of the Titans 2010 remake.

• Net Worth: $6 Million
• Date of Birth: Apr 15, 1979 (40 years old)
• Gender: Male
• Height: 6 ft (1.83 m)
• Profession: Actor
• Nationality: United Kingdom
• Last Updated: 2018

1. 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 you're failing or that you're doing it wrong. Luke Evans

2. I don't think you should spend that much time in the gym. Don't sit around between sets too long. If you want to burn some calories, keep the sets tight. Give yourself 30 seconds to a minute between each set. Supersetting is brilliant. Luke Evans

3. 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. Luke Evans

4. Sometimes I eat at, like, 9:30 at night and then go to bed at 10:30 and wake up at 4:00. Luke Evans

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

6. Before the 'Fast & Furious' promo in Manila, I went on a vacation in the Philippines 10 years earlier. I loved it. My 'Miss Saigon' friends showed me around. Luke Evans

7. A watch is a fashion statement, and it says something about the person wearing it. Luke Evans

8. There are certain tuxes you can get away with a black tie, but with others, you'd be dishonoring the workmanship if you didn't wear a full bow tie. Luke Evans

9. I do like Jason Statham as a person and as an actor. I think he's a great performer, and he delivers every time. Luke Evans

10. I think starting a cinema career late in life has more advantages than disadvantages. Luke Evans

11. In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but not in cinema. Luke Evans

12. Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide. Luke Evans

13. To be able to work with people who I have respected and admired, to be a part of something like the Cannes Film Festival, is surreal and brilliant. Luke Evans

14. It's good for people to look at me and think, 'This guy is doing his thing and enjoying what he's doing and successful at it and living his life.' And that's what I'm doing, and I'm very happy. Luke Evans

15. When I didn't get a job, I thought, 'Don't worry, there'll be another one.' I still live by that now. Nothing really fazes me any more. Luke Evans

16. I guess maybe directors see a face that seems to have been lived in. I know that my face has been lived in, yeah. Luke Evans

17. If you train too much, it can rule your life, and I don't think that's healthy - for men or women. Luke Evans

18. I don't need to be super-ripped all year round. That's a pretty miserable way to live your life. Luke Evans

19. Being involved in 'The Hobbit' has been a huge boost for me. It's really put me on the map and helped me be taken more seriously as an actor. Luke Evans

 20. My style is determined by the mood, the period and the circumstances which I'm going through in a given moment. Luke Evans

21. 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. Luke Evans

22. 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. Luke Evans

23. 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

24. When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch. Luke Evans

25. 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. Luke Evans

26. 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. Luke Evans

27. I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy. Luke Evans

28. There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps. Luke Evans

29. 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. My own material. Luke Evans

30. 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. Luke Evans