Orlando Bloom Quotations

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

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

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

As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.

I look forward to working with UNICEF as they continue to make the world a better place for children.

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

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.

The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.

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.

Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.

I just want to have a nice, happy life.

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.'"

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.

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

As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

If you think of the ice caps as the fridge of our planet, if your fridge at home died, the food you eat would go rotten, and you'd starve.

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.

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

My cousin once told me, 'You're tall, you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apologize for it the rest of your life.' He imparted that information to me.

I want to do things that terrify me, unless they're going to kill me.

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.

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

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.

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.

Wanting to be a rock star, I get it. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, dude! The freedom!'

I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head.

I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.

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.

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

Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.

Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.

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

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.

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

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?

Creativity is the key for any child with dyslexia - or for anyone, for that matter. Then you can think outside of the box. Teach them anything is attainable. Let them run with what you see is whatever they need to run with.

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

People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

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.

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.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

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 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 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.'

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

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

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

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.

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.'

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

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 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 got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

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.

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 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 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.

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

Be comfortable. I think if you're comfortable, you exude confidence, and that leads to good style.

Being referred to as a hunk or a heartthrob makes me nervous, but it's flattering. But I'm more interested in being an actor than a heartthrob.

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

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

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

I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else.

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

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

I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.

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

I've never been a great one for technology.

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.

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

Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.

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

My first priority is trying to protect my family.

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

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

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

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.'

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.

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.

Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.

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?

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.

As an actor, you can't think about the end result or the fame; you just have to focus on the day you're in. You have no control over the finished product, what people will think of it, so all you have is the experience of making it, and you have to stay focused on that.

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 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.

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.

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.

My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband, died when I was four years old. So I only had my mum and sister, really.

Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.

Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.