“There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.”
Failure
“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.”
DatingAll Quotes by 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.”
Trust“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.”
Experience“Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.”
Trust“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.”
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.”
Dating“I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.”
Business“People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.”
Trust“Elves are cool, man.”
Cool“Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.”
Death“I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.”
Cool“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?”
Cool“Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.”
Failure“I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.”
Movies“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.”
Amazing“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?”
Funny“I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.”
Learning“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.”
Dreams“I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.”
Dating“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.”
Movies