Elijah Wood
Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.Collection: Dreams
My bucket list tends to relate to travel or eating.Collection: Travel
I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.Collection: Society
Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.
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.
In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.
The approach of 'Game of Thrones' is similar to 'The Lord of the Rings' in that it treats its source material almost like history, and it focuses as much on the human drama as it does on anything fantastical.
The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.
So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.
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.
I love the smell right after a storm.
I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed.
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?
If you're innocent, you have very little knowledge of the world, and you want to succeed. People with parasitic interests will see you as their prey.
This bizarre industry presents so many paths of temptation. If you don't have some kind of foundation, typically from family, then it will be difficult to deal with.
I don't fear death or ageing, but I fear them in other people that I am close to.
It would be an amazing superpower to be able to make every person you meet feel better about the thing that makes them insecure.
If you can get your movie made the way you want to get it made, no matter what the end result is going to be, if people are going to see it, that's awesome.
I feel like I'm constantly learning. Constantly trying to grow.
The older I've gotten, the more I've gotten a little precious about music-related films as it comes to biopics. I kind of don't want to see it; I'd rather see a documentary. And this is just coming from me. I love music documentaries; I kind of don't want to see people embodying those people.
When I was in my 20s, I started frequenting record stores, and there was one in particular called Tropicalia in Furs in New York City. It's closed now, but it was one of those magical places where you would walk in, and the owner would start playing you records and not let you leave. It was such an education.
As much as my primary vocation is that of an actor, if anything, I feel like I am more excited about filmmaking in general, so it's not always a specific role that I'm attracted to, but rather an entire piece that I want to be a part of.
There are a lot of vipers in this industry, people who only have their own interests in mind.
I was lucky in the sense that I started work very young but had a solid family base provided by my mother. She instilled a strong sense of perspective and humility in me from a very early age.
What's so strong about 'Game of Thrones' is that it's a character and political drama, with a sort of fantasy backdrop.
I just want to work on things that move me.
After 'Rings,' I had two feelings: One, I immediately didn't want to work on anything on a large scale. I wanted to work on something really small after I was finished filming the first three. But the other thing was that I had a continuing interest in working on things that were really different.
I grew up actually reading 'The Hobbit,' not 'The Lord of the Rings.' I loved 'The Hobbit' growing up.
I think 'The Lord of the Rings' holds perhaps a deeper place in people's hearts than 'The Hobbit' the book does.
I have always kept a pretty healthy separation between my work in my film and my life outside of it.
Many of my friends are not in the film industry, and I feel like it's healthy. It's not totally by choice. It is, perhaps, people I connect with.
Putting a needle on a record is almost like you're making a commitment to listening to something.
I remember the first horror movie I saw - I was five years old; it was a direct-to-video movie called 'Truth or Dare: a Critical Madness,' which is sort of badly fantastic or fantastically bad. And then 'Gremlins' was an early movie that I saw, and 'Nightmare on Elm Street 3.'
I've always looked for roles that are different. I've tried to continue to challenge myself as an actor and work in varying styles of films.
Our bad memories and our bad experiences are what make us who we are and what make us grow and allow us to learn, if we choose to see the lessons in those experiences.Collection: Memories
Quite simply it is love. It is the unconditional love that says, regardless of what you do or where you go, I will always be there for you.Collection: Unconditional Love
My God! Middle Earth does exist!Collection: Doe
I never wanted to be in a band because I love music too much to mess it up.Collection: Band
I've always had a sense of groundedness as a person. I think that's helped me. My mother sort of beat into me the notion of humility, and I think my focus has always been on the right things or the things that I'm passionate about, which is just simply the work.Collection: Mother
I'm always intrigued by new challenges and things that I've never done before and new experiences. It sounds so simple, but the primary interest is just something that's good and instills within me some kind of gut feeling that feels like something that I'm passionate and excited about, and there can be multiple variables that can instill that. It can be simply a filmmaker, it can just be a character, it can just be the script, or a combination of all those things. But, I'm always just looking to do things that I've never done before, primarily.Collection: Character
On a superficial level, I like girls with dark hair - I'm a sucker for that.Collection: Girl
Sometimes my interest in working on a film is not always dictated specifically by the character. Sometimes it's simply about wanting to be a part of a vision that I love, or a script that I love. I find exciting and gratifying.Collection: Character
I think new experiences are extremely important. I think it's really important to constantly challenge yourself. Comfort is not a good thing. It's good to take yourself out of your comfort zone and to look for new challenges.Collection: Thinking
Hello! I'm Elijah Wood, and i'm a looser!Collection: Woods
I'm not a star!!! A star is nothing but a ball of gas!!!Collection: Stars
The guy is a stud with women just following him around wherever he goes. But he is the last one who'll ask anyone to do anything for him. He'd rather just go do it himself.Collection: Guy
Geeks are the coolest people.Collection: People
I actually got a crush on Anne Heche when I worked with her on Huckleberry Finn. It didn't work out.Collection: Crush
When you have an animal in your home, a relationship forms very quickly, where that animal ceases to be an animal to you. It feels like a member of your family.Collection: Home