Orlando Bloom

“I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.”

“I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to go on stage, and part of that is a poem that I read to myself.”

“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.”

“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 sa...”

“Elves are cool, man.”

“Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.”

“Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.”

“As an actor, you can't think about the end result or the fame; you just have to focus on the day you're in. You have no control over the finished product, what people will think of it, so al...”

“I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.”

“Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“When I was filming, I imagined that Legolas was a meditative character who was very thoughtful and had a certain amount of depth to him. I started working on trying to find this focus that L...”

“As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.”

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

“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 a...”

“I've never been a great one for technology.”

“If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"”