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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?
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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.'"
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?
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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.'
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Elves are cool, man.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.
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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.
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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.
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I am a Buddhist.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes.
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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 Legolas has, which wasn't really like me.
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When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.
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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.
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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.
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Yeah, I'm kind of fit. And I'm quite careful about my diet.