Quotes from Orlando Bloom

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

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.

Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.

If you want to screw around, it's your choice and you accept it when you're caught.

Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

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

How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?

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

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

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

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

Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

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

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

Elves are cool, man.

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

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?

I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.

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 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.

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.

People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

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