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" 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.'" "

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" I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go. "

" 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. "

" Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he? "

" 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 I was filming, I imagined that Legolas was a meditative character who was very thoughtful and had a certain amount of depth to him. I started working on trying to find this focus that Legolas has, which wasn't really like me. "

" I had plenty of vices growing up. "

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

" I don't want to be a pretty boy. "

" Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. "

" 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. "

" I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version. "

" 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 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. "

" You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script. "

" Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does. "

" 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. "

" Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to how good he is as an artist, and I wouldn't even put myself in the same category as an actor. "

" Actors don't really get into their stride until they're in their late 30s and 40s. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 never responded to teaching. "

" My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.' "

" How can you be in hell while you are in my heart? "

" I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept. "