Orlando Bloom Quotes

• Maybe our generation is more about s*x, but it feels like romance is dying out.

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• 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.

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• If life isn’t about human beings and living in harmony, then I don’t know what it’s about.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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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• 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.

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• I’m amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I’m so lucky, though my mum always says, “You make your own luck.”

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• I’m always amazed at anyone’s interest in what I have to say.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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’.

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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.

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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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• 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 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.

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• I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

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• 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?

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Birth:	13th January, 1977
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor

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