Luke Evans
When I'm training hard, the diet is miserable.Collection: Diet
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.Collection: Freedom
It's good for your body to have a break. Even when you're training, you have to have a cheat day every week. The body reacts better to training if you give it intervals of not training, or you relax the diet.Collection: Diet
I look in the mirror, and I don't mind what I see.
I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals.
Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide.
Wales is blessed with some truly magnificent castles, full of history and a must see for visitors.
I feel that New Zealand is my second home.
Basically, Apollo was more of a mediator between Zeus in Olympus and Perseus on Earth. He played much more of an active role.
A longbow takes a massive draw for the arrow to go anywhere.
Costume is a massive thing. I think costume makes you stand differently.
I had a role in 'Crossroads' when I was about 21, and then I went on to perform in 'Small Change' and then 'Piaf' in the Donmar Warehouse, London, and it was when I was there that some casting directors spotted me.
I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.
It's just hard to get an independent film made.
To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford them.
Good suits don't come from anywhere, though - I mainly wear Armani, Louis Vuitton and Burberry.
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.
A guy's biggest style mistake is definitely trying to look too cool. As long as you've got a good pair of jeans, a good pair of boots and a few good shirts, you're fine.
I think sandals should be burnt. I hate them - purge them!
I always wanted to sing, as a child.
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 felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.
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.
Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.
And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for 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.
I really loved 'Fast Five.' I thought it was a brilliant movie. I thought it was so well done, well directed. The action sequences were really well thought out. It looked fantastic.
There are certain films you want to see on the big screen.
I have seen 'Fast Six,' and it's awesome.
British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it.
People want to hear your stories about these wonderful experiences you have, and that's what press tours are for.
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. My own material.
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.
There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.
I don't see enough theatre.
Gemma Arterton in 'The Master Builder' at the Almeida - she was absolutely brilliant. Ibsen is difficult and quite hard to follow, but she just brings the stage to life.
Miranda Kerr is absolutely lovely.
I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy.
You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap.
The percentage of people that go to drama college in the U.K. is probably just like anywhere in the world. It's a very hard business to work in. They say that, at any one time, there's only 5% of actors in the world that are actually working and getting paid, which is a shocking percentage, really.
In theater, you sometimes can only do one or two jobs a year because they're long periods. In film, you can shoot so many. It's quite interesting.
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.
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.
Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.
I understand, certain scenes have to have a lot of takes. As an actor, I think it's quite nice to have a handful of takes, because you don't want to do it once or twice; I think once or twice sometimes is quite terrifying because you don't really feel like you've given them what you want.
It was never really part of my plan to be in films; it was really sort of a dream.
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.
My style is determined by the mood, the period and the circumstances which I'm going through in a given moment.
The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished.
When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.