Orlando Bloom Quotes
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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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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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I would love to have played Gollum.
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I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.
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I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.
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I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else.
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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 are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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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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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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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 all you have is the experience of making it, and you have to stay focused on that.
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I had plenty of vices growing up.
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My first priority is trying to protect my family.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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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.
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Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.
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I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.
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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.