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" I was lucky in the sense that I started work very young but had a solid family base provided by my mother. She instilled a strong sense of perspective and humility in me from a very early age. "

Elijah Wood

Perspective

Mother

Family

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" What's so strong about 'Game of Thrones' is that it's a character and political drama, with a sort of fantasy backdrop. "

" I have always kept a pretty healthy separation between my work in my film and my life outside of it. "

" The older I've gotten, the more I've gotten a little precious about music-related films as it comes to biopics. I kind of don't want to see it; I'd rather see a documentary. And this is just coming from me. I love music documentaries; I kind of don't want to see people embodying those people. "

" The approach of 'Game of Thrones' is similar to 'The Lord of the Rings' in that it treats its source material almost like history, and it focuses as much on the human drama as it does on anything fantastical. "

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Lord

Human

" I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me. "

" If you can get your movie made the way you want to get it made, no matter what the end result is going to be, if people are going to see it, that's awesome. "

" In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for. "

" If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would it go with the beat of your heart? "

" After 'Rings,' I had two feelings: One, I immediately didn't want to work on anything on a large scale. I wanted to work on something really small after I was finished filming the first three. But the other thing was that I had a continuing interest in working on things that were really different. "

" I love the smell right after a storm. "

" I've always looked for roles that are different. I've tried to continue to challenge myself as an actor and work in varying styles of films. "

" Many of my friends are not in the film industry, and I feel like it's healthy. It's not totally by choice. It is, perhaps, people I connect with. "

" This bizarre industry presents so many paths of temptation. If you don't have some kind of foundation, typically from family, then it will be difficult to deal with. "

" Putting a needle on a record is almost like you're making a commitment to listening to something. "

" Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from. "

" As much as my primary vocation is that of an actor, if anything, I feel like I am more excited about filmmaking in general, so it's not always a specific role that I'm attracted to, but rather an entire piece that I want to be a part of. "

" I think 'The Lord of the Rings' holds perhaps a deeper place in people's hearts than 'The Hobbit' the book does. "

" I grew up actually reading 'The Hobbit,' not 'The Lord of the Rings.' I loved 'The Hobbit' growing up. "

Elijah Wood

Growing Up

Reading

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" I feel like I'm constantly learning. Constantly trying to grow. "

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Feel

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" My bucket list tends to relate to travel or eating. "

" I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world. "

" There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected. "

" So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others. "

" I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed. "

" I remember the first horror movie I saw - I was five years old; it was a direct-to-video movie called 'Truth or Dare: a Critical Madness,' which is sort of badly fantastic or fantastically bad. And then 'Gremlins' was an early movie that I saw, and 'Nightmare on Elm Street 3.' "