The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?
— Orlando Bloom
Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
Would I like to direct? Maybe one day.
My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.
Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
I'd love to return to theater.
I would love to have played Gollum.
Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.
Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.
My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'
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.
Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.
I just want to have a nice, happy life.
Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
I never responded to teaching.
When it comes to meals, there's always a fantastic choice on British Airways.
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.
I want to play James Bond - are you kidding me? I'm putting my name in the ring!
Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
I want to have an impact on my son.
Legolas is that kind of action elf who pouts a bit, stares off to the distance, and has a couple hero moments, killing with a lethal bow and arrow along the way.
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.
I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.
When I was filming, I imagined that Legolas was a meditative character who was very thoughtful and had a certain amount of depth to him. I started working on trying to find this focus that Legolas has, which wasn't really like me.
I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.
I look forward to working with UNICEF as they continue to make the world a better place for children.
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.
I'm not interested in celebrity.
Actors don't really get into their stride until they're in their late 30s and 40s.
I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.
I was quite fearless as a kid. But I've had to realize I'm not invincible. That's what breaking your back does. It makes you grow up and reassess life.
Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
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.
I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
Talk about your problems. There's no need to feel shy. It's always good to talk about issues that concern you.
Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.
Pilates is great.
Men treat men differently than they would a woman.
Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.
Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.
I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.
I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.
I don't want to be a pretty boy.
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.'
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.
