Orlando Bloom Quotes

United Kingdom, Actor
January 13, 1977

Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom (born 13 January 1977) is an English actor. After having his breakthrough as Legolas in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, he rose to fame by further appearing in epic fantasy, historical epic, and fantasy adventure films. His other roles include Legolas in The Hobbit trilogy, Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, and Paris in Troy (2004). Bloom subsequently established himself as a leading man in Hollywood films such as Balian de Ibelin in Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven (2005) and Elizabethtown (2005). He made his professional stage debut in West End's In Celebration at the Duke of York's Theatre in London in 2007 and starred in a Broadway adaption of Romeo and Juliet in 2013. In 2009, Bloom was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. In 2015 he received the BAFTA Britannia Humanitarian Award.

Also known as Film Actor, Model, Stage Actor

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?

Orlando Bloom
- Up
- Bad
- Funny
I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.

Orlando Bloom
- Love
- Romantic
- For Him

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.'"

Orlando Bloom
- You
- Say
- Prince
Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.

Orlando Bloom
- Love
- For Her
- For Him
Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?

Orlando Bloom
- Style
- Cool
- Hero
When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'

Orlando Bloom
- Thought
- Moment
- Roses
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.

Orlando Bloom
- Think
- Environment
- Easy
Elves are cool, man.

Orlando Bloom
- Man
- Cool
- Elves

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.

Orlando Bloom
- Women
- Love
- Beautiful
I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.

Orlando Bloom
- People
- Play
- Characters
When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.

Orlando Bloom
- Work
- Love
- Young
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Orlando Bloom
- Success
- Failure
- Disaster
I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.

Orlando Bloom
- Work
- Fun
- Light
Yeah, I'm kind of fit. And I'm quite careful about my diet.

Orlando Bloom
- Kind
- Fit
- Diet

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.

Orlando Bloom
- Character
- Man
- Political
If you think of the ice caps as the fridge of our planet, if your fridge at home died, the food you eat would go rotten, and you'd starve.

Orlando Bloom
- Home
- Food
- Ice
Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

Orlando Bloom
- Life
- Trust
- Just
The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes.

Orlando Bloom
You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.

Orlando Bloom
- Me
- Famous
- Seems
Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.

Orlando Bloom

When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.

Orlando Bloom
- People
- Think
- Keep
I am a Buddhist.

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

Orlando Bloom
- Girl
- Romantic
- Her
You see movie stars advertising all sorts of things today for whatever reason. And it may be that it affords them the luxury to do smaller movies or to go and do a play. Because, otherwise, you have to keep doing movies where you get paid millions and millions of dollars to maintain a certain lifestyle.

Orlando Bloom
- May
- Movie
- Today