Orlando Bloom quotes:

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 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 a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.

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?

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.

I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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 found myself doing all these action-adventure movies, and it's been a fantastic experience, and I've learnt a lot.

Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.

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.

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.

When you work in such a surreal environment as movies, just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone.

Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.

I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.

I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

My first priority is trying to protect my family.

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

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

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?

Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.

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.

Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.

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

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.

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

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

I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.

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 suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.

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

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

Drama class was one of the only areas at school I responded 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.

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'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.

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

I'm completely in love with the idea of love.

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

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.

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

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 don't want to be a pretty boy.

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

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

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

As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times.

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

Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.

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

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

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

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 can be a little bit outrageous. I can be a lot of things. I'm a bit of an adrenaline junkie, so I love to go out there and do kind of crazy stuff which is slightly outrageous, like bungee jumping, skydiving, surfing and that sort of stuff. But I also like to just chill with my friends and go and see movies and do normal things.

You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.

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'.

Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.

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

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.

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.

If you have kids who are struggling with dyslexia, the greatest gift you can give them is the sense that nothing is unattainable. With dyslexia comes a very great gift, which is the way that your mind can think creatively.

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.'

Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.

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

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?

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?

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.

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

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

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.'

Pilates is great.

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

I hated kissing Zoe Saldana too! I was like, "Take your tongue out of my mouth, please. Your boyfriend is standing right there." Most people think kissing beautiful costars must be great. But it's always awkward, man.

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.

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.

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.

When it comes to meals, there's always a fantastic choice on British Airways.

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.

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

I don't want to do only blockbusters.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.