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.
ORLANDO BLOOMI remember one time that I was filming a scene in which my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking ‘This is the life’.
More Orlando Bloom Quotes
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I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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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.
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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.
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I won’t admit or deny anything, makes me more interesting.
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People come into your life and people leave it… you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
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I’m still at the beginning of my career. It’s all a little new, and I’m still learning as I go.
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My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there’s a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit more defined and cerebral. I can see why people would want to cross over. If you have so much freedom on stage then perhaps you want to be confined a bit, and vice versa.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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I remember one time that I was filming a scene in which my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking ‘This is the life’.
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The thing about fame, is you never think it’s going to happen to you. So when it does, it’s sort of a shock. Some people are just better at it than others.
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How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?
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The philosophies behind meditation are very current today and are a way of finding some sort of peace.
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I don’t know any family that doesn’t have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn’t have those things in life, you’d be so bland.
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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.
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The truth is – I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven’t had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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Dyslexia is not due to a lack of intelligence, it’s a lack of access. It’s like, if you’re dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process.
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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.
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Whatever happens in life is fine – just trust in that.
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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.
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Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.
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I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that’s quite romantic.
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I love it. I hate that word (fatherhood), but I love being a father; it’s changed everything in so many ways.
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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.
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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.’
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