Orlando Bloom Quotes & Sayings

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. — Orlando Bloom

Obviously, I'm not a singer. I don't consider myself a singer. — Orlando Bloom

When I arrive at my destination, I like to hit the gym, as I find exercise helps combat jet lag. — Orlando Bloom

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. — Orlando Bloom

How can you be in hell while you are in my heart? — Orlando Bloom

I love it. I hate that word (fatherhood), but I love being a father; it's changed everything in so many ways. — Orlando Bloom

I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go. — Orlando Bloom

When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time. — Orlando Bloom

I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to go on stage, and part of that is a poem that I read to myself. — Orlando Bloom

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. — Orlando Bloom

Until this movie 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, and am ready for this phase of my career. — Orlando Bloom

There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be. — Orlando Bloom

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. — Orlando Bloom

People think getting a new partner is like getting a new car. — Orlando Bloom

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. — Orlando Bloom

Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director. — Orlando Bloom

The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it. — Orlando Bloom

Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful. — Orlando Bloom

I was an angry, angry child at times. — Orlando Bloom

I mean, I have a great job. I get to dress up and become somebody else, especially when it's someone like Legolas, who's this super-cool kind of otherworldly elf. It's, like, I'm lucky, man, so why would I not appreciate that? — Orlando Bloom

I had plenty of vices growing up. — Orlando Bloom

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

I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity. — Orlando Bloom

Being a gentleman is a worthy goal. — Orlando Bloom

I'm looking at doing things that challenge me. — Orlando Bloom

Drama class was one of the only areas at school I responded to. — Orlando Bloom

I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun. — Orlando Bloom

Legolas is that kind of action elf who pouts a bit, stares off to the distance, and has a couple hero moments, killing with a lethal bow and arrow along the way. — Orlando Bloom

I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy. — Orlando Bloom

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better. — Orlando Bloom

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. — Orlando Bloom

I'd love to return to theater. — Orlando Bloom

I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard. — Orlando Bloom

If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about. — Orlando Bloom

I can be a little bit outrageous. I can be a lot of things. I'm a bit of an adrenaline junkie, so I love to go out there and do kind of crazy stuff which is slightly outrageous, like bungee jumping, skydiving, surfing and that sort of stuff. But I also like to just chill with my friends and go and see movies and do normal things. — Orlando Bloom

The philosophies behind meditation are very current today and are a way of finding some sort of peace. — Orlando Bloom

Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does. — Orlando Bloom

Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to how good he is as an artist, and I wouldn't even put myself in the same category as an actor. — Orlando Bloom

I am a Buddhist. — Orlando Bloom

I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life. — Orlando Bloom

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. — Orlando Bloom

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

I look forward to working with UNICEF as they continue to make the world a better place for children. — Orlando Bloom

I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else. — Orlando Bloom

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. — Orlando Bloom

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. — Orlando Bloom

It's mad because as a woman, you carry the baby for nine months, so you're very conscious that you have a little one inside you. But for a guy, it's suddenly, there's a baby there. — Orlando Bloom

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. — Orlando Bloom

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

I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something. — Orlando Bloom

Being referred to as a hunk or a heartthrob makes me nervous, but it's flattering. But I'm more interested in being an actor than a heartthrob. — Orlando Bloom

As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times. — Orlando Bloom

I don't know any family that doesn't have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn't have those things in life, you'd be so bland. — Orlando Bloom

Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up. — Orlando Bloom

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. — Orlando Bloom

We have to make good use of the time we have. That simple. We have to wake up every day, knowing that it's not just an ordinary day. We have to take the moment, seize each day. — Orlando Bloom

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top. — Orlando Bloom

Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies. — Orlando Bloom

Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone. — Orlando Bloom

Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else. — Orlando Bloom

My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great. — Orlando Bloom

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

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. — Orlando Bloom

Yeah, I'm kind of fit. And I'm quite careful about my diet. — Orlando Bloom

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. — Orlando Bloom

Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station. — Orlando Bloom

I want to do things that terrify me, unless they're going to kill me. — Orlando Bloom

My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband, died when I was four years old. So I only had my mum and sister, really. — Orlando Bloom

The role of an actor is to make every character believable. — Orlando Bloom

I just want to have a nice, happy life. — Orlando Bloom

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

When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.' — Orlando Bloom

I think it's important if you are an actor, if you are portraying human life, you have to connect with what is human. It's not easy if you spend a lot of time in L.A. and get sucked into the hedonism of the industry. — Orlando Bloom

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

Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf. — Orlando Bloom

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

Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really. — Orlando Bloom

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? — Orlando Bloom

You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script. — Orlando Bloom

A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though. — Orlando Bloom

Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.' — Orlando Bloom

I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'. — Orlando Bloom

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. — Orlando Bloom

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. — Orlando Bloom

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. — Orlando Bloom

I need to keep reinventing myself. — 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

My first priority is trying to protect my family. — Orlando Bloom

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry? — Orlando Bloom

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

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept. — Orlando Bloom

I would love to have played Gollum. — Orlando Bloom

My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there's a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit more defined and cerebral. I can see why people would want to cross over. If you have so much freedom on stage then perhaps you want to be confined a bit, and vice versa. — Orlando Bloom

Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference. — Orlando Bloom

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death. — Orlando Bloom

Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically. — Orlando Bloom

Wanting to be a rock star, I get it. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, dude! The freedom!' — Orlando Bloom

Talk about your problems. There's no need to feel shy. It's always good to talk about issues that concern you. — Orlando Bloom

When it comes to meals, there's always a fantastic choice on British Airways. — Orlando Bloom

Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that. — Orlando Bloom