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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.
I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
Elves are cool, man.
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?
People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
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.
How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?
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.
He's kind of that guy who's caught up in success, ... He's the hot shot at work, obsessed with the new car or whatever it may be.
For once I just wanted to be an average, normal guy, which is really what I am. It's like, very vulnerable. I saw the film and I was so naked. I'm just completely there. It's like there's nothing to hide behind, no mask.
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.
It shows America in a way that the world needs to see it right now ... and a way that America needs to see it right now. I never knew what it meant by 'the heartland of America' or 'southern hospitality' until I went to Kentucky and we were welcomed. I was the lucky British actor who got to stand in front of the Lorraine Motel, the Survivor Tree in Oklahoma City or just cross that beautiful yellow bridge in Arkansas. I was in those locations and they are very powerful places to be. This is an America that the world hasn't seen for a while ... or maybe even America has forgotten about. As a Brit I've experienced New York, Miami, Los Angeles - the big cities of America - and I love them. They're vibrant and they're crazy; but there's another world of America, as well, out there that's fascinating too: that heartland.
Elizabethtown.
He went home to Kentucky to deal with the loss of his father and the funeral arrangements and so on
It's bizarre, really bizarre.
If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
Early on (in my career) I got swept up in this world, you know, Lord of The Rings, and all these great action-adventure movies and I love them
It was really good not riding a horse and having a sword for once.
The man is a fucking genius. When you walk on set and you see the environment, the costumes, and you've got the make-up, it really makes it easy.
It's so easy to forget what's important in life.
Elf Envy...they all had it.
It wasn't that easy, but hopefully I pulled it off and people would find it believable. I wanted it to be real. I wanted it to be my voice and not something I just put on.
I remember thinking, 'Wow, we're making a really special, heartfelt story that I think a lot of people will be able to relate to,' ... When you're sitting in the theater and you see somebody coming to terms with life and death, success and failure ? which is everything that Drew does ? it feels freeing, because you realize that these emotions escape no one.
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
People really welcomed us into their community.
Kirsten is a really positive person. In the film, she brings my character back to life. She's perfectly cast because she is that light.
There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco, ... A fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
I love this guy, ... I love the journey he goes on. It's a story we can all relate to, in terms of success and failure and the momentary happiness in life. What really makes people tick? What really makes them understand life?
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?
It's cool. It's the reason I get to do what I do.
I guess people want to think that. It sells papers, doesn't it? ... I don't listen to that stuff. I ignore it. I'm really happy in my current relationship.
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.
Kingdom of Heaven.
Wow, you´re right: ´Lord of the Rings´ does look better from far, far away. You too, Susan.
Right where i left you... Not where i left you?
He's totally an actor's director.
We love you, Orlando.
We'd worked together on a Gap commercial, so I guess he'd always seen me as a contemporary young guy, ... I was definitely on his mind.
We're all in Cameron Crowe's new film, 'Elizabethtown,'
Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions, ... They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
Oh, I don't know, ... I don't really know what that game is. I'm looking forward to getting a movie out there that we really loved making and loved working on — a great, real story. There are no special effects, there's no blue screen — it's just heartfelt drama.
He's got the music in his head. There's a rhythm to it all.
Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
I prefer Christina Aguilera to Britney Spears - loved her VOICE, what a voice!
Cameron wanted that Jack Lemmon quality for Drew, ... That kind of crazed, quirky physical comedy and that Billy Wilder style of drama, as well. Obviously, [Crowe is] hugely influenced by Wilder, so it was cool. It was an important part of the DVD collection while we were filming.
My mother's husband died when I was 4, and I thought he was my dad until I was 15 and found out that my legal guardian was my real dad. He kind of acted like my dad, anyway. But he wasn't with my mother living at home with us. It's an unusual kind of story, but it was cool because I had two dads for a while, and it was useful in creating the character in the movie.
[Bloom experienced some of his character's emotions while exploring America's heartland.] I've been to big cities of America, but I never really understood what they meant when they said the Heartland of America, ... Making this movie and going to locations like Oklahoma City, Memphis, and standing on a beautiful bridge over a river in Arkansas was like, wow.
I definitely could relate to the father aspect of the script because although my father is alive, I thought he was dead until I was 13.
He's the most giving, generous, great, helpful, open, honest director you could work with as an actor. It's like an education.
[Orlando Bloom also talked about what it was like working with Crowe.] He's the hero man. Hero of the hour, always wanted to work with Cameron and this for me was a dream opportunity, ... We got to work on something that was a really personal project for Cameron and became a very personal project for me.
The girls have got a bit excited. I spoke to my agent and she says she's wading through the fan mail. We've got bags of it.
It was amazing to be part of a community. A couple of girls even offered to knit me a scarf.
Six or eight times, maybe more.
I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.
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