Luke Evans Quotes

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

I'm a character actor; that's my skill set.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

The idea of an actor is that you should be able to play anything.

Being able to disappear into every film that I do really works in my favor.

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that people have begun to connect dots and go, 'Oh, that's the same person that did this, this, this, this and this!' which I take as a compliment. One time somebody called me an illusionist, and that was the nicest thing anyone has ever said.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.

A performer needs to feel the part to be the part!

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.

I hope to be known as a chameleon actress, as someone who can play any part out there, and someone who can transform herself into any kind of character there is.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.

When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.

I'm an actor and I'm able to do a lot of things and play a lot of characters.

I'm an actor who believes in looking different in every film of mine.

My fans will see me in a lot of different roles.

The only thing I have tried to do is be a part of different films and bring out a different side of me as an actor every time I play a character. I would like to be known as a versatile actor.

That's what I'm drawn to: playing characters that are completely different.

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him. He was a performance artist in a way.

I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.