I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.
Legolas in ‘Lord Of The Rings’ was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else.
I want to have an impact on my son.
Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.
I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.
I am very different to how people think I am. It’s the characters I play that they are responding to.
I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.
Drama class was one of the only areas at school I responded to.
Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I’d love to work with her.
I don’t want to be a pretty boy.
Vig used to call me ‘Elf boy’, and I’d call him ‘filthy human’. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he’d say to me, ‘Oh, go manicure your nails.’
Every stylish man should have a copy of ‘The Fountainhead’ by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.
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.
I am a Buddhist.
Take time to enjoy the flight – read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
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.
My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.
Believing you’re something that you’re not excites the mind and the imagination. And it’s hopeful.
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.
When I arrive at my destination, I like to hit the gym, as I find exercise helps combat jet lag.
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.
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.
People come into your life and people leave it… you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you’re having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.
I wish I could just be in the movies and still enjoy everything else like a normal person.
The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It’s an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.
If life isn’t about human beings and living in harmony, then I don’t know what it’s about.
Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.
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.
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