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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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" 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'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe. "

" Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son. "

" Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier. "

" 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'm completely in love with the idea of love. "

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" 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 would love to have played Gollum. "

" Men treat men differently than they would a woman. "

" I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film. "

" 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. "

" My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist. "

" I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends. "

" When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.' "

" Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up. "

" Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part. "

" I think it's important if you are an actor, if you are portraying human life, you have to connect with what is human. It's not easy if you spend a lot of time in L.A. and get sucked into the hedonism of the industry. "

" I just want to have a nice, happy life. "

" 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. "

" Obviously, I'm not a singer. I don't consider myself a singer. "

" 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. "

" 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. "