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. – Orlando Bloom
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. – 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
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
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
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
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. – Orlando Bloom
I wish I could just be in the movies and still enjoy everything else like a normal person. – 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 had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role. – 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
Attraction doesn’t stop when a child is born. It’s the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier. – Orlando Bloom
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
I look forward to working with UNICEF as they continue to make the world a better place for children. – 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 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
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
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
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
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. – Orlando Bloom