I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on building a bit of time for myself.
My cousin once told me 'You're tall you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apologize for it the rest of your life.' He imparted that information to me.
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?
When I arrive at my destination I like to hit the gym as I find exercise helps combat jet lag.
I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial too.
I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
Life is about balance and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
Drama class was one of the only areas at school I responded to.
I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.
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.
I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head.
Unfortunately I'm very accident-prone.
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.
Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit I guess that's quite romantic.
Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
What's weird is having your mother fly in on an aeroplane with your face on the side of it.
Elves are like trees grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
I found myself doing all these action-adventure movies and it's been a fantastic experience and I've learnt a lot.
There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
I won't admit or deny anything...makes me more interesting.
The role of an actor is to make every character believable.
I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate enjoy and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.
Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath the whole thing you could eat him! He's a big beautiful boy. He's great.
I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.
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.'
When you work in such a surreal environment as movies just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone.
Legolas is that kind of action elf who pouts a bit stares off to the distance and has a couple hero moments killing with a lethal bow and arrow along the way.
My baby is amazing even his head smells amazing. His breath the whole thing you could eat him!
I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles but there's an odder quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
I don't care much about the money at all. Frankly if I get the chance to kiss someone in a movie they wouldn't need to pay me at all.
When it comes to meals there's always a fantastic choice on British Airways.
Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating even when you're not talking - with your body language your facial expressions your eyes.
I don't want to do only blockbusters.
I look forward to working with UNICEF as they continue to make the world a better place for children.
Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
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.
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.
If you read 50 books I'll get you a motor bike.
The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?
Low budget movies make lots of money.
I bungee-jump skydive surf and snowboard.
The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand bargain hunting and vintage.
I don't want to be a pretty boy.
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.
Until this movie 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 and am ready for this phase of my career.
Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.
I'm probably a good boyfriend but I'm pretty intense. When you're with me it's exciting fun and very intense. At the same time I'm easy going. But all that depends on what girl I'm with.
Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else.
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.
I was quite fearless as a kid. But I've had to realize I'm not invincible. That's what breaking your back does. It makes you grow up and reassess life.
I need to keep reinventing myself.
I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.
My mom used to tell me 'If you read 50 books I'll get you a motorbike.'
Elves are cool man.
Pilates is great.
I just want to have a nice happy life.
Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool isn't he?
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.
Being referred to as a hunk or a heartthrob makes me nervous but it's flattering. But I'm more interested in being an actor than a heartthrob.
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.
Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.
When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.
Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.
I love it. I hate that word (fatherhood) but I love being a father; it's changed everything in so many ways.
I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new and I'm still learning as I go.
When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies I had a gear shift and thought 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'
I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity.
I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'.
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.
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister but my father my mother's husband died when I was four years old. So I only had my mum and sister really.
You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.
Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like okay take it on the chin and keep going. No choice really.
As a young actor I found myself in all these movies at once with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times.
London is one of the most exciting cities in the world with a melting pot of cultures and diversity.
Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight because that's a pretty cool concept.
Talk about your problems. There's no need to feel shy. It's always good to talk about issues that concern you.
Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.
I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work but I really don't think about it.
If you think of the ice caps as the fridge of our planet if your fridge at home died the food you eat would go rotten and you'd starve.
Sofia Coppola is wonderful and I'd love to work with her.
As a child I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
People think getting a new partner is like getting a new car.
I generally travel with my laptop a couple of great books and my iPod.
I used to ride motorbikes and drive cars like everything was a racetrack; it was ridiculous. It wasn't because I thought it was cool; it was just because I loved living on the edge. But I've chilled.
I'm going to start a new career as a singer I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.
I love traditions. I mean cultural ones.
The philosophies behind meditation are very current today and are a way of finding some sort of peace.
You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Wanting to be a rock star I get it. I'm like 'Oh my God dude! The freedom!'
Everything you know all the things that you thought were important drift into the background. And even things that were important really come to the fore and he's one of them.
I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life you know in many ways.
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.
I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre maybe some television and maybe someday a film.
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.
Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family about life about death.
Women as mothers of the earth deserve the utmost respect.
I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
Men treat men differently than they would a woman.
Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.
The philosophy that I've embraced isn't about sitting under a tree and studying my navel
Elves live in harmony with the world and I try to do that.
The world throws you out of your body especially the cyberworld.
I'm old-school English so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father every moment is precious.
I've lived a very nomadic life which I enjoy.
I wish I could just be in the movies and still enjoy everything else like a normal person.
My first priority is trying to protect my family.
I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.
Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.
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.
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.
Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
Since I've had a son I want to be around to see him grow up.
Maybe our generation is more about sex but it feels like romance is dying out.
Actors don't really get into their stride until they're in their late 30s and 40s.
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.
I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
When I was nine I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.
Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony then I don't know what it's about.
How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?
If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about they might say "It's about a prince and he says 'To be or not to be.'
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 want to do things that terrify me unless they're going to kill me.
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 had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
When you start to live your dream it's not quite what you thought it was because there is a lot of overwhelming stuff that comes on top of it and you have to figure it all out.
Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
I just keep pinching myself that that's my wife.
I feel really privileged to be an actor to be paid to do something I love
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.