Top 110 Orlando Bloom Quotes

I’ve lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.

If you were to ask everyone what ‘Hamlet’ was about, they might say, “It’s about a prince, and he says, ‘To be or not to be.'”

As an actor, you can’t think about the end result or the fame; you just have to focus on the day you’re in. You have no control over the finished product, what people will think of it, so all you have is the experience of making it, and you have to stay focused on that.

When you work in such a surreal environment as movies, just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone.

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

I’m looking at doing things that challenge me.

I was an angry, angry child at times.

I’m still at the beginning of my career. It’s all a little new, and I’m still learning as I go.

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.

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.

Wanting to be a rock star, I get it. I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, dude! The freedom!’

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.

Life sometimes doesn’t work out exactly as we plan or hope for.

I want to play James Bond – are you kidding me? I’m putting my name in the ring!

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

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

I’ve never been a great one for technology.

My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother’s husband, died when I was four years old. So I only had my mum and sister, really.

My mother’s husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.

When you’re young and you’re in love and it doesn’t work out – it hurts.

I had plenty of vices growing up.

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.’

Fear is not a friend of mine. But it’s something to have a healthy awareness of.

Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.

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.

Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.

Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.

I don’t want to do only blockbusters.

When you start to live your dream, it’s not quite what you thought it was because there is a lot of overwhelming stuff that comes on top of it, and you have to figure it all out.

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

Be comfortable. I think if you’re comfortable, you exude confidence, and that leads to good style.

My cousin once told me, ‘You’re tall, you’re handsome – and you’re gonna have to apologize for it the rest of your life.’ He imparted that information to me.

Yeah, I’m kind of fit. And I’m quite careful about my diet.

I feel real confidence in working on the stage.

When it comes to meals, there’s always a fantastic choice on British Airways.

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

A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.

I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that’s dark. But I’m fun and jovial, too.

As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times.

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

It’s mad because as a woman, you carry the baby for nine months, so you’re very conscious that you have a little one inside you. But for a guy, it’s suddenly, there’s a baby there.

Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I’m nowhere close to how good he is as an artist, and I wouldn’t even put myself in the same category as an actor.

There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.

You can drive an SUV, but there’s a balance. If you do that, maybe use energy-efficient light bulbs at home or just be conscious of switching off lights. If you can afford to drive an SUV, maybe you can afford to make a donation to a wind farm or plant some trees. It’s all about balance.

Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.

I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.

I never responded to teaching.

There’s a difference between a failure and a fiasco… a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes.

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.

I came out of drama school thinking I’d do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.

Think about finding out when you’re 13 that your dad is not your dad. It’s like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.

There’s a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.

I don’t do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn’t have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.

Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.

For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.

Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.

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.

I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.

Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

Steve McQueen is my style hero. He’s just cool, isn’t he?

I’m going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I’m going to go the way of Russell Crowe.

I would love to have played Gollum.

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.

My mom used to tell me, ‘If you read 50 books, I’ll get you a motorbike.’

Pilates is great.

Creativity is the key for any child with dyslexia – or for anyone, for that matter. Then you can think outside of the box. Teach them anything is attainable. Let them run with what you see is whatever they need to run with.

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.

When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, ‘Wow, that’s cool.’

Obviously, I’m not a singer. I don’t consider myself a singer.

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

I think it’s important if you are an actor, if you are portraying human life, you have to connect with what is human. It’s not easy if you spend a lot of time in L.A. and get sucked into the hedonism of the industry.

You don’t improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it’s also a world to get your mind into thematically.

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.

I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it’s hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.

London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, with a melting pot of cultures and diversity.

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.