Quotes By Orlando Bloom

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it.

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.

I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.

If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'

When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.

Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.

Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.

I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.

I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.

I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, "You make your own luck."

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?

My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.