Orlando Bloom Quotes

I can remember watching 'Lord of the Rings' and being truly regretful that I wasn't a being in that world.

There are many, many, actors with whom I'd like to share a stage or a set.

I'm pretty comfortable on any set where I have something to do.

I think that I'm very passionate, and I know that if I decide to do a film, my character is going to take over my life.

The Orkney imagination is haunted by time.

The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.

I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.

None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.

Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is.

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.

I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.

The cinema is death at work.

I miss the comraderie of live television - the fact that you were on the set, you worked closely with the director and the cast, that I miss. But, no, I'm happy, I'm happy doing film.

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"

You know what's funny about movies? You can watch one, and then you watch it again at a different stage in your life, and you understand different messages from the same film.

Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad; yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life.

Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.

I like stories that begin with characters. I like to be engaged and moved by the characters in the story. I want to be moved. I want to leave the cinema and think about what I've seen. My sensibility is quite eclectic and it doesn't matter if they are small or large films, I just want to make good films.

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent more than half of my life in the ‘dark ages’!

Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

I've loved movies since I could remember. They were literally the most significant thing in my life as a kid. I'm really lucky that I've felt so inspired by them; they're such a good format to tell a story.

This moment will just be another story someday.

Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.