Orlando Bloom Quotes

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.

When I joined the film industry I looked forward to different roles, unfortunately that did not materialise.

You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

The thing about 'On the Doll,' I was doing 'Nip/Tuck' at the time, and I was doing only 5 or 6 scenes an episode. So I had some free time, and I wanted to do something completely different than what I've ever done before.

Great film roles, they always take you to another place. I'd love to do more of that, but I keep doing lots of voiceovers, some TV spots, and some film roles have come along, so I'm okay.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

I have an affinity for good roles in good films. I like a variety of parts, and if some of the good stuff happens to be in fantasy and horror, I do them.

In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

'Donnie Darko' was my first audition ever! It opened my eyes to the possibilities within camera work.

A film is a chain of very difficult decisions, and I think one of them is to choose an accurate cast.

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a collaborative medium.

I never sought to play monsters in films.

What I do on film is part of my profession.

We play many emotions in our careers, emotions that in real life we would perform just once. For example, my character has died in about 10 films, so you have to keep searching for different ways to do it!

I'm very proud of 'That Kind of Woman' with Sophia Loren, directed by Sidney Lumet, and I loved doing 'Gunman's Walk' because I finally got to play a bad guy.

I learn a new thing every single day about acting, about directing, about producing.

I want to take acting lessons first. But I'd love to find the right film, a 'Breakfast Club' kind of thing.

I would love to act in films if people think I am right for a particular role.

If any fantastic filmmakers want to offer me roles, I'll consider it!