Orlando Bloom Quotes (78 Quotes)

He went home to Kentucky to deal with the loss of his father and the funeral arrangements and so on,

Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in 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 prefer Christina Aguilera to Britney Spears - loved her VOICE, what a voice

Bloom experienced some of his character's emotions while exploring America's heartland. I've been to big cities of America, but I never really understood what they meant when they said the Heartland of America, ... Making this movie and going to locations like Oklahoma City, Memphis, and standing on a beautiful bridge over a river in Arkansas was like, wow.

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

It wasn't that easy, but hopefully I pulled it off and people would find it believable. I wanted it to be real. I wanted it to be my voice and not something I just put on,

It was really good not riding a horse and having a sword for once,

He would often play a piece of music just before a take to set the mood.

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.

It was amazing to be part of a community. A couple of girls even offered to knit me a scarf.

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.

Early on (in my career) I got swept up in this world, you know, Lord of The Rings, and all these great action-adventure movies and I love them,

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.

The girls have got a bit excited. I spoke to my agent and she says she's wading through the fan mail. We've got bags of it.

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.

People really welcomed us into their community.

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 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'.

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.

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

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

I 'm at the beginning of my career and I hope I get to get the opportunity to play someone diverse and dark and more serious in the story.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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?

Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.

I guess people want to think that. It sells papers, doesn't it ... I don't listen to that stuff. I ignore it. I'm really happy in my current relationship.

It shows America in a way that the world needs to see it right now ... and a way that America needs to see it right now. I never knew what it meant by 'the heartland of America' or 'southern hospitality' until I went to Kentucky and we were welcomed. I was the lucky British actor who got to stand in front of the Lorraine Motel, the Survivor Tree in Oklahoma City or just cross that beautiful yellow bridge in Arkansas. I was in those locations and they are very powerful places to be. This is an America that the world hasn't seen for a while ... or maybe even America has forgotten about. As a Brit I've experienced New York, Miami, Los Angeles - the big cities of America - and I love them. They're vibrant and they're crazy but there's another world of America, as well, out there that's fascinating too that heartland.

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.'

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

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.

You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.

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

I definitely could relate to the father aspect of the script because although my father is alive, I thought he was dead until I was 13,

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

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.

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

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.

Elves are cool, man.