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" As much as my parents were worried about me moving to London at 17, they could see that I was hungry to find my path. And it probably helped that they saw me succeeding at it, slowly but surely. "

Luke Evans

Path

Moving

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" When I was focusing on theater, I would go on for months without any work and could hardly pay the rent. "

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Pay

Months

" For my part, if the audience wanted to see Dracula again, I would be happy to reprise the role. It is an immortal character that can appear anywhere because it lies beyond time. Possibilities are endless. "

" It was never really part of my plan to be in films; it was really sort of a dream. "

" My trainer is with me all day. We train before I come to work, and then I just keep training all day. "

Luke Evans

Training

Day

" 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. "

" It's a lovely thing to be able to sing. "

" '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 was a weed. Such a skinny little weed. I just couldn't put on weight; I couldn't put on muscle. I was the oddest shape. And I thought that was it: that's how I'd look for the rest of my life. And I'd beat myself up about it so much. But you change an awful lot. You're 16. Your body's not even halfway to what it'll end up being. "

" Costume is a massive thing. I think costume makes you stand differently. "

" 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. "

" I just love the sound of a black woman's voice. "

" I did use my own accent in a play once. It's a very freeing, liberating experience. Actors are often asked to adopt a different accent, and sometimes a different voice, so when that's taken away and you don't have to think about it, that's a lovely thing. "

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

" Every time you get in shape for a role, there's a different way to do it so it doesn't get boring. "

" 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

Great

Person

" 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. "

" I've always had quite long canines. It's a very strange thing. My parents don't have them. "

" 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. "

" I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed. "

" The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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