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Luke Evans

Welsh

April 15, 1979

Actor

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I don't see enough theatre.

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I don't carry off 'quirky.'

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I'm basically turning my apartment into an armory.

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The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished.

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In all honesty, I should have given up this acting lark years ago.

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It's hard work just being on set 14 hours a day.

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

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I'm this dude that can play a farmhand and a handyman and sometimes a Greek god.

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Good suits don't come from anywhere, though - I mainly wear Armani, Louis Vuitton and Burberry.

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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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The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience.

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People come up to me in pubs - gay pubs, mind you - and can't believe that I'm gay.

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Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide.

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

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

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I'm not a 'Twilight' boy; I'll never be as good looking as those lads, and that's fair enough.

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I guess maybe directors see a face that seems to have been lived in. I know that my face has been lived in, yeah.

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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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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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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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Being involved in 'The Hobbit' has been a huge boost for me. It's really put me on the map and helped me be taken more seriously as an actor.

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The Sixties was all about style and a certain look. But what was interesting about 1963 was that it was pre-Beatles, so the clothes of that time, especially the suits, were very different from the clothes post-Beatlemania.

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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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I've had some pretty awful jobs that I don't miss, like working on a nightclub door, or compiling VIP lists at 3 A.M. in the morning, but sometimes it's just got to be done.

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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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I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits from other directors, and you know the way that you would like to be directed.

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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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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 understand, certain scenes have to have a lot of takes. As an actor, I think it's quite nice to have a handful of takes, because you don't want to do it once or twice; I think once or twice sometimes is quite terrifying because you don't really feel like you've given them what you want.

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I was often looked at as a leper by kids at school because I was a Jehovah's Witness. They didn't like it - you were 'weird'. And on Saturday mornings, you'd be knocking at their doors. I remember standing there with my mum and dad, thinking, 'Oh my God, I know whose door this is, and I'll have to see them on Monday.' It was terrible.

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