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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
Doing
Dream
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" Peter Jackson is a wonderful man. He's a great director. He's found his niche in life. "
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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. "
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" British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it. "
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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. "
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" It's good for your body to have a break. Even when you're training, you have to have a cheat day every week. The body reacts better to training if you give it intervals of not training, or you relax the diet. "
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" If you ask an actor what he'd prefer to act on, he'd probably say a tangible, real set, or even better, a real location out on a mountainside or by a river. It's just easier because you don't have to imagine anything. "
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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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" I always wanted to sing, as a child. "
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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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" The truth of the matter is roles like James Bond are the ones that I look up to as probably the best roles ever to play. So that's probably my ultimate goal one day: to play James Bond. "
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" I think the best directors rarely lose their temper. "
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" You never get over an ex, but you learn to live with it. "
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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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" It's just hard to get an independent film made. "
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Independent
" 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. "
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Me
" 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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" I don't carry off 'quirky.' "
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Carry
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" 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. "
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" I look in the mirror, and I don't mind what I see. "
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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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" Vampires were always able to transform into creatures of the night. The dark creatures like bats have always been associated with vampires and using the darkness to their own advantage. "
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" I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script. "
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