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Luke Evans

Luke Evans Biography

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Luke Evans is a British actor born on April 15, 1979. He has gained popularity for his leading roles in films such as Bilbo Baggins in 'The Hobbit' trilogy and Gaston in 'Beauty and the Beast'. Evans is known for his unique acting skills and handsome appearance.

Luke Evans is a British actor born on April 15, 1979. He has gained popularity for his leading roles in films such as Bilbo Baggins in 'The Hobbit' trilogy and Gaston in 'Beauty and the Beast'. Evans is known for his unique acting skills and handsome appearance.

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“It's nice to be part of something that could grow into something else and be there at the beginning of it.”

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“Every film, every fight choreographer, wants to have a different flair, have a different fight technique. So any film I've done that involved weapons has always been fascinating because everyone is different.”

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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.”

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“I think the best directors rarely loose their temper. 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 your failing or that you're doing it wrong.”

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“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.”

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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.”

Turns Hours Forget Bases Gym

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“Each form of the acting is different. I think it keeps your mind active. TV, film and theater are different disciplines, as are independent films, opposed to studio films. There are differences in the size and the genre, or a period drama as opposed to a contemporary drama, or the types of characters.”

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“I do love action films and I hope I'm going to do many more and learn lots of new crafts 'cause that's the joy of movies.”

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“For one movie, I'm learning to play a violin, and I had never picked up a violin in my life. That's a big challenge. That's what I see as one of the advantages of this business. You get to do things you'd never do, in a normal lifestyle.”

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“I'm an only child. My mum and dad are six in each family. They're both twins, and they only wanted one. I always say to them though that they're lucky - it could have all gone wrong.”

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“I'm very, very close to my mum and dad. My mum is only nineteen years older than me, so she could be my older sister, which is really nice.”

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“It must be weird having one child.”

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“I probably wanted to be a shopkeeper, because I like tills.”

Wanted Shopkeepers

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“I think my dream would have been to be a solo artist. But it didn't work out like that, and I also love to sing lots of musical stuff; I was really good at that, I've got a big voice. I dropped into musical theater and really enjoyed it and I sang for about nine years of my career.”

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“I'm not saying every musical theater actor can do film or television, but a lot of them can. A lot of them are brilliant actors who absolutely don't need to sing to prove their ability and don't get the opportunity.”

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“It's quite clear if you look at the actors in film right now, some of them came from theater but they didn't come from musical theater. There's still a bit of a stigma attached to it I would say.”

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“On Broadway and in the United States it's very different - people crossover all the time into television. I think that we'll get there [in London] in the end, but it has to start with who comes to see you in the musical and whether they can see beyond the dancing and the singing.”

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“Sometimes it's not about the size of your role, it's about the machine that you're part of.”

Sometimes Roles Machines Size

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“I've always been quite good at watching someone do something and then picking it up, so I turned that talent to watching people on the film set, and just saw how small everything was and how intimate the scenes could be.”

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“If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at the end of the day.”

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“You've got to be in the moment and respond to what you're feeling. I try to simplify it as much as possible.”

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“You can over complicate everything with techniques; when you're in the moment, you have to feel that you are that character, that you're feeling the pain or the happiness or whatever it is that they're feeling in that moment. Usually the authenticity will manifest itself.”

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“There's always a connection to be made whether you're playing a psychopath or whatever. It doesn't really matter; you've got to find this thing that you relate to with each character otherwise you're missing something.”

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“I'm in a fortunate position that sometimes you just get offered roles - they're not necessarily the roles you take, but to get offered a film is amazing. I think the work you've done before that is why you get it.”

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“When you audition for something you do feel a little bit more legit. It's a validation that you are the right person for the job because they've chosen and they've seen you do something connected to that role.”

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“I don't think a lot of people know that I can sing. It's not common knowledge.”

People Thinking Knows I Can Common Common Knowledge

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“Not everybody's a great singer, but people can get better at singing. There's great singing teachers out there. It's a muscle, you just have to train it.”

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“I'm quite good at switching off and sometimes I forget who I am in a character.”

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“When I was playing Dracula I had to switch off from the reality and fall into this fantasy world. Otherwise I just couldn't cope with what I was doing. It's about switching off. It is about trying to flick a switch, which you have to do.”

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“It's just nice to do something a bit different, and I guess when you're an actor, you have the license to do that.”

Different Actors Bits Nice License

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“If you look weird, you can blame the role, you know? So no one's going to tell me I'm having a mid-life crisis.”

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“I think I sort of realized it was an international thing when we went to South Korea for The Fast [and the Furious] 6 premiere. We knew nothing about South Korea, and we came through the sliding doors [at the airport] with my luggage and there were like 60 fans with Luketeer banners: "We're your Korea Luketeers." It was like, wow, this is amazing.”

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“I started doing [acting] for a living, no one really warned me about the amount of traveling I would do. I always thought everything was shot in Los Angeles.”

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“I've traveled everywhere, and it's been amazing. I used to think taking a flight was kind of a big deal, you know? I'm from the valleys of South Wales and when my family used to go on holiday, it was a big thing. Packing the bags, checking in, not losing your passport, going through customs, the X-ray machine, all that stuff used to be quite an intense thing. Now it's like catching a bus, I don't even think about it.”

“When you're working, you're flying on someone else's buck. When you're flying on your own, you sort of go, 'You know what, I'd rather keep the dosh in my pocket to spend when I get there.”

Knows Flying Pockets Bucks

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“With everything you do as an actor, you obviously know the full story. But the person watching it doesn't, necessarily. So, you just have to discipline yourself to wipe the slate clean as you go along.”

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“It's never the practice to shoot the scenes in the proper order. Sometimes you shoot the final scenes of a film before you've even started the beginning. So you get good at it because you have to sort of just eliminate the memories of something you've done as an actor, which you haven't done as the character yet. But it sometimes is a bit of a mind-f**k.”

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“Look at social media. It's what we do, right?”

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“Well usually if I'm having a sh***y day, I don't post anything. I don't go out just to tell everyone I'm having a great day, even if I'm not.”

Ifs Wells Posts Great Day Have A Great Day

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“I think it's a slippery slope to fabricate a different life.”

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“Everybody has a down day, no one's perfect; no one's having the most idyllic life. I mean, I guess everybody wants to project positivity to the outside world, but if we're honest, no one's going to have 24/7 bliss.”

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“Sometimes I comment, but you have to be careful because if you do it for one, everybody wants you to say something.”

Ifs Want Sometimes Careful Comment Be Careful

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“When I was younger, I never had that fascination.”

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“I never followed a band, I never followed a - nothing. I think maybe it's because my mom and dad were not like that, and it was just me and mom and dad. We were very close; we spent a lot of time just together, just enjoying each other's company.”

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“I never had a magazine, I never listened to a certain band. Actually, I was listening to bands from the '60s and '70s with my dad, so I knew more about The Beatles than I did about what was topical in my life.”

Certain Listening Dad Band My Dad Magazines

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“I'll tell you a little fun fact about the film, though. Me, the little boy playing Chip, Emma Thompson, and Emma Watson, all have the same birthday. We were all in on the same day and they all sang us "Happy Birthday." That will never happen in my life again: Four of us having the same birthday on the same film, and we're all in on the same day. It was an extraordinary thing.”

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“I stay away from Speedos. That would cause me absolutely unnecessary publicity.”

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“The best night of my life was watching the moon turn red on an island .I think it was called the blood moon and it happens like once every - I don't know how long, but it was a beautiful night. It was a very magical moment.”

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“I do not comment on my client's personal lives in the media. As for Luke, he did so once, a long time ago when he was an inexperienced, young actor and now with maturity and hindsight, he has learned not to engage the press in his personal life again.”

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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.”

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About the Author

Born: April 15, 1979
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 63

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