Quotes from Orlando Bloom

I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.

I'd love to return to theater.

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

People think getting a new partner is like getting a new car.

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.

I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.

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

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

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.

I don't want to do only blockbusters.

I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head.

I don't want to be a pretty boy.

I am a Buddhist.

Low budget movies make lots of money.

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.

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.

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

Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.

Pilates is great.

I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.

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.

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 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.