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.
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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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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.
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Elves are cool, man.
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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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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How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.
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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 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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I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.
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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?
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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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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.
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I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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