Quotes By Orlando Bloom

Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.

I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.

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

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

I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.

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.

Until this movie 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, and am ready for this phase of my career.

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.

The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?

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

A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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?

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.

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