Orlando Bloom Quotes

I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

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.'

Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

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.

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.

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

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?

We have to make good use of the time we have. That simple. We have to wake up every day, knowing that it's not just an ordinary day. We have to take the moment, seize each day.

Dyslexia is not due to a lack of intelligence, it's a lack of access. It's like, if you're dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process.

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.

Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.

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

How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?

When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.

If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motor bike.

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

I need to keep reinventing myself.

I won't admit or deny anything...makes me more interesting.

Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Women, as mothers of the earth, deserve the utmost respect.

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

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.

Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.

Wanting to be a rock star, I get it. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, dude! The freedom!'

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

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'm probably a good boyfriend, but I'm pretty intense. When you're with me it's exciting, fun and very intense. At the same time, I'm easy going. But all that depends on what girl I'm with.

I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.

You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.

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

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.

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

Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity.

I don't know any family that doesn't have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn't have those things in life, you'd be so bland.