Orlando Bloom

Orlando Bloom

26 quotes

Born in 1977, English actor Orlando Bloom built a reputation that extends far beyond any single accomplishment. The range of their thinking — from Movies to Cool — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. 37 of Orlando Bloom's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Movies, Cool, Trust, Women, and Romantic. Readers often gravitate to this one: "There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions."

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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.”

— Orlando Bloom

Love

All Quotes by Orlando Bloom

“I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.”

— Orlando Bloom

Amazing

“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

Dreams

“Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.”

— Orlando Bloom

Failure

“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

Movies

“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

Cool

“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

Learning

“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

Strength

“I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.”

— Orlando Bloom

Dating

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

— Orlando Bloom

Cool

“There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.”

— Orlando Bloom

Failure

“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

Trust

“I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.”

— Orlando Bloom

Amazing

“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

Experience

“I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.”

— Orlando Bloom

Romantic

“I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.”

— Orlando Bloom

Movies

“People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.”

— Orlando Bloom

Trust

“I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.”

— Orlando Bloom

Movies

“I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.”

— Orlando Bloom

Dating

“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

Cool

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

— Orlando Bloom

Death