Orlando Bloom Quotes on Movies (17 Quotes)

For once I just wanted to be an average, normal guy, which is really what I am. It's like, very vulnerable. I saw the film and I was so naked. I'm just completely there. It's like there's nothing to hide behind, no mask.

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.

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.

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.

My mother's husband died when I was 4, and I thought he was my dad until I was 15 and found out that my legal guardian was my real dad. He kind of acted like my dad, anyway. But he wasn't with my mother living at home with us. It's an unusual kind of story, but it was cool because I had two dads for a while, and it was useful in creating the character in the movie.

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

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 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?

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.

Oh, I don't know, ... I don't really know what that game is. I'm looking forward to getting a movie out there that we really loved making and loved working on a great, real story. There are no special effects, there's no blue screen it's just heartfelt

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

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 remember thinking, 'Wow, we're making a really special, heartfelt story that I think a lot of people will be able to relate to,' ... When you're sitting in the theater and you see somebody coming to terms with life and death, success and failure which is everything that Drew does it feels freeing, because you realize that these emotions escape no one.

Kirsten is a really positive person. In the film, she brings my character back to life. She's perfectly cast because she is that light.

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.

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