Elijah Wood Quotes (35 Quotes)

Of all the films I've worked on, that is among my favorites. It's an incredibly beautiful film. (Levinson) really captures what it means to be in a family and the ups and downs of that. He maps out beautifully how families moved from Eastern Europe to the United States and how they got broken up by the modern age.

I credit my mom Debbie for creating a solid family base, ... She gave me a strong sense of reality so I could avoid falling into the normal pitfalls of child actors.

It's a film called 'Bobby,' ... It's about the day that Robert Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel, and it takes place at the Ambassador. It's essentially about a cross-section of various people from all walks of life, at that hotel on that day, all leading up to his speech and him being assassinated.

The story ends up being a journey of self-discovery.

I'm proud of Dominic. We're good friends.

At the base, it's about a man from America who doesn't quite fit in, with the comedy that entails. Everyone can relate to that, when things are lost in translation,

I loved the story of these three characters Wood's American Jonathan, his Ukrainian interpreter Alex and Alex's grandfather, their driver on a road trip and the comedy that comes up because of lack of communication,

You just assume that you have some anan, ana, ananonimity, anonymity Yeah, anonimity.

I'll play a character who is getting married to a woman to avoid the draft. Ultimately they fall in love with each other, but at first it's only out of practicality.

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

I'm scared to death of doing it, because I love him (Iggy Pop) so much and I respect the music so much. I don't want to be the person responsible for screwing that up.

I loved the story, the comedy and how emotional it becomes. It was also an opportunity to do something different to what I had done before.

an amazing thing to . . . have that kind of impact on people.

The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.

It had a profound impact on me as a human being, and I did a lot of growing within that, so that will always be a defining moment in my life, a defining time.

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.

I think there were a few things that really interested me. One was that I didn't know a lot about hooligan culture. I'd heard of football violence but I didn't quite understand how intense it really is, how organized it is, and more importantly, how these people aren't necessarily criminals or thugs in their daily life. They almost have this sort of double life. They're people with families and some of them have relatively good jobs. That fascinated me. And also the opportunity of being able to take a character from that kind of relatively innocent place to essentially making him a hooligan was very attractive to me. To explore a darker side of humanity that I'd not really explored in film before just as an actor was an interesting challenge.

I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed.

He had a very clear vision of what he wanted to do artistically, visually, ... I wanted to be part of that vision. It seemed so beautiful and interesting.

I do think there was an active choice to do something small, as simple as it may sound, just so I didn't have to work on something for 16 months. The idea of two months, nice and contained, just about character, and no time in makeup was a thrill to me.

If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would it go with the beat of your heart?

I talk to Dom all the time, but he still won't tell me any of the good plot twists for next season's 'Lost.'

I really have the greatest time at these events because I am a fan first, I am a gamer, I am a film fan and a horror buff, so I am here as a fan as well as a kind of featured guest.

Watching a fellow actor direct for the first time was an education ... I feel that for the past 16 years, I've been going to film school.

Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.

It was a wonderful project to work on, and a very different character for me.

Those eyes' ... I've heard that my whole life. I'm actually quite blind. I wear contacts.

It's fantastic, are you kidding To sort of be part of this project from the ground up, from the script form, and then for it to kind of do as well as it did in the States in the festivals, and come here it's fantastic, it's wonderful.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

This festival is amazing. I've wanted to come here for so long, and to be here for just a night is torture.

On a superficial level, I like girls with dark hair - I'm a sucker for that.

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

I had a woman breakdown and cry when she met me which was difficult to deal with because immediately when someone starts to cry, you want to comfort them, you know, "Poor thing." I comforted her. I tried to make her feel better.

There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.