Quotes

“I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.” Orlando Bloom

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

“I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.” Orlando Bloom

“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.” Orlando Bloom

“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.” Orlando Bloom

“I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.” Orlando Bloom

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

“How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?” Orlando Bloom

“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.'” Orlando Bloom

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

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

“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.” Orlando Bloom

“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?” Orlando Bloom

“Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.” Orlando Bloom

“There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.” Orlando Bloom

“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.” Orlando Bloom

“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.” Orlando Bloom

“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.” Orlando Bloom

“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.” Orlando Bloom

“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?” Orlando Bloom

“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.” Orlando Bloom

“Elves are cool, man.” Orlando Bloom

“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.” Orlando Bloom

“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.” Orlando Bloom

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

“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.'” Orlando Bloom

“The role of an actor is to make every character believable.” Orlando Bloom

“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.” Orlando Bloom

“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.” Orlando Bloom

“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.” Orlando Bloom