Quotes By Orlando Bloom

You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.

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

Elves are cool, man.

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 don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.

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.

I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'.

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.

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.

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

I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

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.

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.

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

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'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.

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

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

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.