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" It's hard work just being on set 14 hours a day. "
Luke Evans
Just
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Work
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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. "
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Time
Work
" You don't want to play the same roles or do the same genre. "
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" It's good for people to look at me and think, 'This guy is doing his thing and enjoying what he's doing and successful at it and living his life.' And that's what I'm doing, and I'm very happy. "
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Good
Happy
" 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. "
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Living
" I don't carry off 'quirky.' "
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" I don't see enough theatre. "
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" Basically, Apollo was more of a mediator between Zeus in Olympus and Perseus on Earth. He played much more of an active role. "
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Zeus
" Costume is a massive thing. I think costume makes you stand differently. "
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Stand
Think
" I've got two cows licks; when I was a kid, all the boys in school used to have curtains, and my hair never used to do that, ever! I always used to try, and I always looked like the geek. "
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Hair
Always
Try
" 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. "
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Like
Brilliant
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" 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. "
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Black
Bow
Others
" Every time you get in shape for a role, there's a different way to do it so it doesn't get boring. "
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Shape
Different
Time
" 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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Time
Long
Gym
" 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
" You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap. "
Luke Evans
Cheap
You
College
" 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
Bridges
White
" I've played quite a few good guys. "
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Guys
Few
Good Guys
" I wouldn't say being in a film with The Rock was 'motivating.' 'Terrifying' would be a more accurate description. "
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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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Jeans
Growing
You
" Sometimes I eat at, like, 9:30 at night and then go to bed at 10:30 and wake up at 4:00. "
Luke Evans
Eat
Sometimes
Night
" 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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Think
Game
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" It's a lot of fun being dressed by designers and surrounded by publicists. "
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Being
Fun
" Gemma Arterton in 'The Master Builder' at the Almeida - she was absolutely brilliant. Ibsen is difficult and quite hard to follow, but she just brings the stage to life. "
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Life
She
" 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. "
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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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Know
Best
" I'd like to make a film musical. That's really my dream. "
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Really
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" A longbow takes a massive draw for the arrow to go anywhere. "
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" 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. "
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Thought
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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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