Luke Evans

“I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script.”

“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.”

“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.”

“One funny thing is, though, I wear my watch on my right hand and I'm actually right-handed. People always wonder why - I don't know myself, I've just always done it that way and I like it the way a good watch fits on my right wrist.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When I didn't get a job, I thought, 'Don't worry, there'll be another one.' I still live by that now. Nothing really fazes me any more.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I just love the sound of a black woman's voice.”

“Miranda Kerr is absolutely lovely.”

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

“I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.”

“I don't carry off 'quirky.'”

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

“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.”

“I think sandals should be burnt. I hate them - purge them!”

“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.”