Quotes from Luke Evans

I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals.

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.

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.

And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.

When I was focusing on theater, I would go on for months without any work and could hardly pay the rent.

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.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

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.

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.

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

I do love action films and I hope I'm going to do many more and learn lots of new crafts 'cause that's the joy of movies.

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

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.

It is a very beautiful story, 'The Crow.' It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes.

The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished.

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

My trainer is with me all day. We train before I come to work, and then I just keep training all day.

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.

I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.

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.

It was very weird because for a long time no one really recognised me from my films, but 'The Hobbit' has totally changed that, and I've had some really special moments, especially with youngsters.

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.

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

I feel that New Zealand is my second home.