Orlando Bloom Quotes

Elves are cool, man.

You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.

When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.

I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.

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.

I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.

London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, with a melting pot of cultures and diversity.

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.

Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.

I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.

Pilates is great.

When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.

Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.

I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.

Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.

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.

Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.

I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.

I've never been a great one for technology.

I am hopeless, romantic, and I love to spoil my girlfriend

People think getting a new partner is like getting a new car.

I want to play James Bond - are you kidding me? I'm putting my name in the ring!

I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.

I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.

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

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

I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.

I don't want to be a pretty boy.

Women, as mothers of the earth, deserve the utmost respect.

My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.

My first priority is trying to protect my family.

When I arrive at my destination, I like to hit the gym, as I find exercise helps combat jet lag.

Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

Talk about your problems. There's no need to feel shy. It's always good to talk about issues that concern you.

The philosophy that I've embraced isn't about sitting under a tree and studying my navel

Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.

When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.

I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity.

What's weird is having your mother fly in on an aeroplane with your face on the side of it.

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.

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

I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.

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 mean, I have a great job. I get to dress up and become somebody else, especially when it's someone like Legolas, who's this super-cool kind of otherworldly elf. It's, like, I'm lucky, man, so why would I not appreciate that?

Actors don't really get into their stride until they're in their late 30s and 40s.

Would I like to direct? Maybe one day.

Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.

The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

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

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

I never responded to teaching.

There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.

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

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else.

It's mad because as a woman, you carry the baby for nine months, so you're very conscious that you have a little one inside you. But for a guy, it's suddenly, there's a baby there.

I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.

Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.

When I was filming, I imagined that Legolas was a meditative character who was very thoughtful and had a certain amount of depth to him. I started working on trying to find this focus that Legolas has, which wasn't really like me.

I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.

I don't know any family that doesn't have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn't have those things in life, you'd be so bland.

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there's a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit more defined and cerebral. I can see why people would want to cross over. If you have so much freedom on stage then perhaps you want to be confined a bit, and vice versa.

I used to ride motorbikes and drive cars like everything was a racetrack; it was ridiculous. It wasn't because I thought it was cool; it was just because I loved living on the edge. But I've chilled.

The world throws you out of your body, especially the cyberworld.

I just keep pinching myself that that's my wife.

I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.

I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.

When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'

I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.

Dyslexia is not due to a lack of intelligence, it's a lack of access. It's like, if you're dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process.

When you start to live your dream, it's not quite what you thought it was because there is a lot of overwhelming stuff that comes on top of it, and you have to figure it all out.

You see movie stars advertising all sorts of things today for whatever reason. And it may be that it affords them the luxury to do smaller movies or to go and do a play. Because, otherwise, you have to keep doing movies where you get paid millions and millions of dollars to maintain a certain lifestyle.

Legolas is that kind of action elf who pouts a bit, stares off to the distance, and has a couple hero moments, killing with a lethal bow and arrow along the way.

You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.

Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to how good he is as an artist, and I wouldn't even put myself in the same category as an actor.

I was quite fearless as a kid. But I've had to realize I'm not invincible. That's what breaking your back does. It makes you grow up and reassess life.

I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.

Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.

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.

I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to go on stage, and part of that is a poem that I read to myself.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

I wish I could just be in the movies and still enjoy everything else like a normal person.

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.

You can drive an SUV, but there's a balance. If you do that, maybe use energy-efficient light bulbs at home or just be conscious of switching off lights. If you can afford to drive an SUV, maybe you can afford to make a donation to a wind farm or plant some trees. It's all about balance.

Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.

Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.

Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.

Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.

I would love to have played Gollum.

For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.

Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.

Everything you know, all the things that you thought were important, drift into the background. And even things that were important really come to the fore and he's one of them.

There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.

If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"

My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'

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.