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 you're failing or that you're doing it wrong.
— Luke Evans
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.
Peter Jackson is a wonderful man. He's a great director. He's found his niche in life.
I look in the mirror, and I don't mind what I see.
If you're gonna start a story, you start from the beginning, right?
I've played quite a few good guys.
I did use my own accent in a play once. It's a very freeing, liberating experience. Actors are often asked to adopt a different accent, and sometimes a different voice, so when that's taken away and you don't have to think about it, that's a lovely thing.
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.
Before the 'Fast & Furious' promo in Manila, I went on a vacation in the Philippines 10 years earlier. I loved it. My 'Miss Saigon' friends showed me around.
A watch is a fashion statement, and it says something about the person wearing it.
Costume is a massive thing. I think costume makes you stand differently.
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.
I moved to Cardiff when I was 17 and never needed a car. When I came to L.A. for my first job there, I needed a car, so I had to pass my driving test.
I think starting a cinema career late in life has more advantages than disadvantages.
I've had letters from people who have read my articles and said, 'I'm a guy, I'm 18, and I've not come out to my mom and dad yet, but it was so nice to hear your story, and you know, I wish your article would have been longer, because you gave me hope for the future.'
I don't carry off 'quirky.'
I was bullied at school, so I didn't much like it.
I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.
I don't think you should spend that much time in the gym. Don't sit around between sets too long. If you want to burn some calories, keep the sets tight. Give yourself 30 seconds to a minute between each set. Supersetting is brilliant.
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 always wanted to get into proper shape.
My trainer is with me all day. We train before I come to work, and then I just keep training all day.
You don't want to play the same roles or do the same genre.
Sometimes I eat at, like, 9:30 at night and then go to bed at 10:30 and wake up at 4:00.
I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad.
I've always had quite long canines. It's a very strange thing. My parents don't have them.
I've got two cows licks; when I was a kid, all the boys in school used to have curtains, and my hair never used to do that, ever! I always used to try, and I always looked like the geek.
Vampires were always able to transform into creatures of the night. The dark creatures like bats have always been associated with vampires and using the darkness to their own advantage.
I'm basically turning my apartment into an armory.
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.
For my part, if the audience wanted to see Dracula again, I would be happy to reprise the role. It is an immortal character that can appear anywhere because it lies beyond time. Possibilities are endless.
I had a very difficult upbringing.
The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience.
You never get over an ex, but you learn to live with it.
If I have to look a certain way for something, I know how long it's going to take me do it.
Every time you get in shape for a role, there's a different way to do it so it doesn't get boring.
It's a lot of fun being dressed by designers and surrounded by publicists.
I don't comment on other people's opinion.
You have to give everything to every job you do.
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.
It's hard work just being on set 14 hours a day.
Singing seems to be inherent in Filipino, just as it is in my race. That's why I have this affinity with Filipinos.
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.
There are certain tuxes you can get away with a black tie, but with others, you'd be dishonoring the workmanship if you didn't wear a full bow tie.
You can read 50 great things about yourself, but the one bad thing will be what you remember most.
I do like Jason Statham as a person and as an actor. I think he's a great performer, and he delivers every time.
When I was focusing on theater, I would go on for months without any work and could hardly pay the rent.
Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide.
I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed.
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.
