Quotes

“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.” Orlando Bloom

“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.” Orlando Bloom

“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.” Orlando Bloom

“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.” Orlando Bloom

“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.” Orlando Bloom

“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.” Orlando Bloom

“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.” Orlando Bloom

“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.” Orlando Bloom

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

“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.” Orlando Bloom

“I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.” Orlando Bloom

“Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about” Orlando Bloom

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

“Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.” Orlando Bloom

“You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.” Orlando Bloom

“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'.” Orlando Bloom

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” Anatole France

“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.” Anatole France

“Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.” Anatole France

“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.” Anatole France

“It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.” Anatole France

“In art as in love, instinct is enough.” Anatole France

“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.” Anatole France

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” Anatole France

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.” Anatole France

“It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.” Anatole France

“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.” Anatole France

“The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.” Anatole France

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.” Anatole France

“What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.” Anatole France