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" I don't need to be super-ripped all year round. That's a pretty miserable way to live your life. "
Luke Evans
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" A watch is a fashion statement, and it says something about the person wearing it. "
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" It's a lot of fun being dressed by designers and surrounded by publicists. "
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" I have seen 'Fast Six,' and it's awesome. "
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" I wouldn't say being in a film with The Rock was 'motivating.' 'Terrifying' would be a more accurate description. "
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" I was often looked at as a leper by kids at school because I was a Jehovah's Witness. They didn't like it - you were 'weird'. And on Saturday mornings, you'd be knocking at their doors. I remember standing there with my mum and dad, thinking, 'Oh my God, I know whose door this is, and I'll have to see them on Monday.' It was terrible. "
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" I've played quite a few good guys. "
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" I had a very difficult upbringing. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy. "
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" The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience. "
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" I come from a country that lives and breathes rugby, and I didn't think there would be anywhere else in the world that could be the same. But New Zealand takes it to another dimension. It's extraordinary how much passion Kiwis have for the game. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't comment on other people's opinion. "
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" The Sixties was all about style and a certain look. But what was interesting about 1963 was that it was pre-Beatles, so the clothes of that time, especially the suits, were very different from the clothes post-Beatlemania. "
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Clothes
" You don't want to play the same roles or do the same genre. "
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" I used to take my car and go down to the South Island for five or six days and climb glaciers and jump out of planes and jump off bridges and go white water rafting - a bit of thrill-seeking. "
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Car
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" I guess maybe directors see a face that seems to have been lived in. I know that my face has been lived in, yeah. "
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" I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad. "
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" It's a lovely thing to be able to sing. "
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" I'm not a 'Twilight' boy; I'll never be as good looking as those lads, and that's fair enough. "
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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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" People come up to me in pubs - gay pubs, mind you - and can't believe that I'm gay. "
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" I moved to Cardiff when I was 17 and never needed a car. When I came to L.A. for my first job there, I needed a car, so I had to pass my driving test. "
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" A longbow takes a massive draw for the arrow to go anywhere. "
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" People want to hear your stories about these wonderful experiences you have, and that's what press tours are for. "
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" There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps. "
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