Luke Evans

“I do like Jason Statham as a person and as an actor. I think he's a great performer, and he delivers every time.”

“It's a lot of fun being dressed by designers and surrounded by publicists.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“A watch is a fashion statement, and it says something about the person wearing it.”

“If you train too much, it can rule your life, and I don't think that's healthy - for men or women.”

“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.”

“I certainly didn't want to make another movie that's 'just another Dracula film.'”

“Costume is a massive thing. I think costume makes you stand differently.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You have to give everything to every job you do.”

“If I have to look a certain way for something, I know how long it's going to take me do it.”

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

“Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.”

“To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford them.”

“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.”

“When I'm training hard, the diet is miserable.”

“You can read 50 great things about yourself, but the one bad thing will be what you remember most.”