Orlando Bloom
I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.Collection: Dating
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.Collection: Relationship
People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.Collection: Trust
There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.Collection: Failure
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.Collection: Success
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?Collection: Cool
I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.Collection: Amazing
Elves are cool, man.Collection: Cool
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.Collection: Amazing
Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.Collection: Trust
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.Collection: Cool
You can drive an SUV, but there's a balance. If you do that, maybe use energy-efficient light bulbs at home or just be conscious of switching off lights. If you can afford to drive an SUV, maybe you can afford to make a donation to a wind farm or plant some trees. It's all about balance.Collection: Home
I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.Collection: Romantic
I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.Collection: Romantic
I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.Collection: Cool
Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.Collection: Chance
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.Collection: Trust
Yeah, I'm kind of fit. And I'm quite careful about my diet.Collection: Diet
The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.Collection: Best
Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.
I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.
Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?
It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.
Creativity is the key for any child with dyslexia - or for anyone, for that matter. Then you can think outside of the box. Teach them anything is attainable. Let them run with what you see is whatever they need to run with.
Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.
I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.
Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
I want to play James Bond - are you kidding me? I'm putting my name in the ring!
Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
Be comfortable. I think if you're comfortable, you exude confidence, and that leads to good style.
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.
When you start to live your dream, it's not quite what you thought it was because there is a lot of overwhelming stuff that comes on top of it, and you have to figure it all out.
I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head.
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?
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.
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.
I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.
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 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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.
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.