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" When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch. "
Luke Evans
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" You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap. "
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" Wales is blessed with some truly magnificent castles, full of history and a must see for visitors. "
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" 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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" You don't want to play the same roles or do the same genre. "
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" In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but not in cinema. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished. "
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" I think starting a cinema career late in life has more advantages than disadvantages. "
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" Miranda Kerr is absolutely lovely. "
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" From the big mountains in the north to the valleys in the south, all through my childhood and teenage years, my family would always holiday in Wales. "
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" 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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" I've dabbled in period films in my career, and I've enjoyed each one. "
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" 'The Desolation of Smaug' stands alone as an action/adventure epic movie. It's visually stunning, and the 3D is incredible. Plus, it's directed by Peter Jackson, and he's extraordinary. "
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" I'm basically turning my apartment into an armory. "
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" And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is. "
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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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" A guy's biggest style mistake is definitely trying to look too cool. As long as you've got a good pair of jeans, a good pair of boots and a few good shirts, you're fine. "
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" Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do. "
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" My style is determined by the mood, the period and the circumstances which I'm going through in a given moment. "
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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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" I had a very difficult upbringing. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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