 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. |
| The role of an actor is to make every character believable. |
| When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time. |
| 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? |
| Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death. |
| People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you. |
| I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love. |
| I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned. |
| My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier. |
| I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself. |
| 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. |
| I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role. |
| There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. |
| 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. |
| I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say. |
| Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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." |
| The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it. |
