Luke Evans

“When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.”

“I've always said that theater was where I began, so everything I do now has a bit of my theater background in it. It was my training.”

“I would love to be able to tap dance.”

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

“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.”

“Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.”

“You never get over an ex, but you learn to live with it.”

“I feel that New Zealand is my second home.”

“The truth of the matter is roles like James Bond are the ones that I look up to as probably the best roles ever to play. So that's probably my ultimate goal one day: to play James Bond.”

“A longbow takes a massive draw for the arrow to go anywhere.”

“I'm not one of those superstitious people.”

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

“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.”

“I always wanted to sing, as a child.”

“Singing seems to be inherent in Filipino, just as it is in my race. That's why I have this affinity with Filipinos.”

“My style is determined by the mood, the period and the circumstances which I'm going through in a given moment.”

“British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it.”

“I had a very difficult upbringing.”

“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.”

“I always wanted to get into proper shape.”