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" In 10 years, I'd love to live near the sea, in a warmer climate. I could see myself with three dogs... and it'd be great to share them with someone else. "
Luke Evans
Live
Love
Myself
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" I always wanted to get into proper shape. "
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" I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job. "
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Character
Know
Best
" I'm this dude that can play a farmhand and a handyman and sometimes a Greek god. "
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Dude
Sometimes
Play
" It's just hard to get an independent film made. "
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Just
Hard
Independent
" My mother did like to make clothes, and in I think the worst picture I've ever seen of myself - I must have been eight or nine - she'd dressed me in a matching t-shirt and Bermuda shorts ensemble which I think looked like somebody had thrown up all over it. I was so glad when that sewing machine stopped working, I have to say. "
Luke Evans
Myself
Picture
Mother
" Basically, Apollo was more of a mediator between Zeus in Olympus and Perseus on Earth. He played much more of an active role. "
Luke Evans
Active
Role
Zeus
" 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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Only
Childhood
Child
" I've played quite a few good guys. "
Luke Evans
Guys
Few
Good Guys
" 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. "
Luke Evans
Thought
My Life
Myself
" 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
Like
Brilliant
Film
" I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed. "
Luke Evans
South
Come
Place
" 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
Someone
Thought
Start
" 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
Know
Been
Face
" 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
Black
Bow
Others
" 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. "
Luke Evans
You
People
Opinions
" Every time you get in shape for a role, there's a different way to do it so it doesn't get boring. "
Luke Evans
Shape
Different
Time
" 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
Loved
Done
Action
" Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide. "
Luke Evans
My Life
Me
Man
" Costume is a massive thing. I think costume makes you stand differently. "
Luke Evans
Costume
Stand
Think
" 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
Me
Some
Small
" I don't necessarily pay extreme attention to what I wear on a daily basis, but I do love to wear something special for an important occasion or when I feel happy. "
Luke Evans
Love
Happy
Daily
" 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
You
View
Point Of View
" Good suits don't come from anywhere, though - I mainly wear Armani, Louis Vuitton and Burberry. "
Luke Evans
Though
Louis
Suits
" 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
Like
Person
" When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons. "
Luke Evans
Job
Acting
Week
" 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
Me
" 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
Like
New
" The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished. "
Luke Evans
Great
Train
Never
" A longbow takes a massive draw for the arrow to go anywhere. "
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Anywhere
Arrow
Draw
" British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it. "
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Great
Bond
Rest