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" I had a role in 'Crossroads' when I was about 21, and then I went on to perform in 'Small Change' and then 'Piaf' in the Donmar Warehouse, London, and it was when I was there that some casting directors spotted me. "

Luke Evans

Some

Small

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My Life

Man

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool. "

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World

New

" You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap. "

" People want to hear your stories about these wonderful experiences you have, and that's what press tours are for. "

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

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Great

Person

" Basically, Apollo was more of a mediator between Zeus in Olympus and Perseus on Earth. He played much more of an active role. "

" I look in the mirror, and I don't mind what I see. "

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" 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. "

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" The percentage of people that go to drama college in the U.K. is probably just like anywhere in the world. It's a very hard business to work in. They say that, at any one time, there's only 5% of actors in the world that are actually working and getting paid, which is a shocking percentage, really. "

" 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. "

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