Luke Evans Quotes

Obviously, movies, you're often on location, out in the rain or the sun, in a real place where the trees and the cars are real. But when you're on stage, as an actor you're imagining the environment that you're in.

When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.

Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.

In theater, you are there, you have a character, you have a play, you have a light, you have a set, you have an audience, and you're in control, and every night is different depending on you and the relationship with the other actors. It's as simple as that.

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

When what you do is play characters every day, all day, I wasn't really interested in playing a pop star on the weekends.

I work in theater, so I am always working in front of empty chairs. They represent a future presence. They are never just chairs.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

I've been lucky enough to play many different roles from darker characters to family orientated shows to comedy.

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Doing theater, I call it concentrated shampoo. You put a dime in the palm of your hand and you get a headful of lather. When you do a play, you're there for two and a half hours, and you live a lifetime.

I'm an actor, and I love the art of creating a character.

I don't think I'll ever act again. I have so many wonderful memories, but those days are over.

Throughout your whole career, there's a bunch of people you might have to kiss. Say there's this character opposite you, and you might not be into her - or him, personally. You just gotta' do it. That's your job.

When I was a kid, to me, the Evergreen Players were the big time.

I have been acting since I was thirteen.

I come from the theatre; my bones are in the theatre. It's as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre.

I love doing emotional scenes. As I've had a perfect life, I don't really have much to pull from. But it's really fun and not that challenging. It's almost pretty easy. The hardest thing is to try and make people laugh. That's a really hard thing.

Roles make the actor.

Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege.

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

My limited theater experience was when I was a kid starting out: two or three plays. I was good in one and mediocre in the other. My problem is that I have other interests.

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.

The very first audition, you just go in and sing. The second one, they give you this sort of cheapy, Walmart-looking puppet - before they give you the $6,500 'Avenue Q' puppet.