Luke Evans Quotes

If you noticed, I wear high-water pants and white socks, which is inspired by the mod '60s, like the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix, what have you. That style of dress during that time is really, really dope to me.

1961 was when I was really into clothes. I left school at 15 and started copying a bloke who used to go up on the train to London with me; Leslie, I think his name was. He was like, top mod of his own area. He wore Italian jackets with white linen jeans. Boy, was that cool! I mean, that's in style now - it's very much the L.A. look. But he was wearing it then, and it looked supercool.

The British invasion was the most important event of my life. I was in New Jersey and the night I saw the Beatles changed everything. I had seen Elvis before and he had done nothing for me, but these guys were in a band.

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.

It's like, what happened, I was always leading fashion, and then the grunge thing kind of came along. And because I've been so on top in the '80s you know, I, you know, what can I do? Suddenly go grunge?

I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before 'Mad Men.'

I remember when I discovered The Beatles with music and The Beatles peaked before I was born and when I discovered them I felt really special.

In the early-'60s, when you look at that period of time - up to the mod time - when everybody was wearing skinnier suits and skinny lapels and skinny ties - that came out of the States, and that was quite cool.

I was such a massive fan of all the '60s pop bands, but if I had to single out one band, it would definitely be The Beatles.

The Beatles have always had a big effect on me.

I love the '60s and sort of wish all design had stopped in 1967. That would be my dream. They were really just nailing it - everyone looked great - but then it started getting a bit slippery after that.

They gave their money, and they gave their screams. But the Beatles kind of gave their nervous systems. They used us as an excuse to go mad, the world did, and then blamed it on us.

Nobody can compare themselves to what The Beatles went through. It was wild.

Nobody thought that the music boom of the Sixties was going to last.

I love '60s styles.

We have to thank the members of the Romantic movement for the sober colours of suits. It was their love of the Gothic that put us in grey and black but the suit stuck.

'Mad Men' introduced me to the power of fashion.

The Beatles kind of pervade everything. They're always kind of part of everyone's lives.

And my biggest revelation that will never be beaten is the Beatles. I couldn't believe that I'd gone my whole life without knowing all those songs.

The whole British music scene of the mid-sixties had a pretty profound effect on me.

When the Beatles came to America and took me off the map, I thought I would return the favor, and I moved the family to England!

I really like the cute Beatles, the beginning. I don't really like the moustached Beatles very much. And then the hippie Beatles I'm not super-thrilled with, although they had good songs.

I only wear vintage clothing. I'm pretty obsessed with things in the '60s, like fashion and music, too.

I love the Sixties and all those iconic women, Bridget Bardot and things like that, so I tend to lean towards those sorts of things.

Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories.