My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'
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.
Elves are cool, man.
Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.
I found myself doing all these action-adventure movies, and it's been a fantastic experience, and I've learnt a lot.
I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.
Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.
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've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.
I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.
I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.
I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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.
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.
You can drive an SUV, but there's a balance. If you do that, maybe use energy-efficient light bulbs at home or just be conscious of switching off lights. If you can afford to drive an SUV, maybe you can afford to make a donation to a wind farm or plant some trees. It's all about balance.
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.
I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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.'
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.
I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.
It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.
I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.
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.
You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.
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 don't want to be a pretty boy.
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.
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.'
Pilates is great.
When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
I would love to have played Gollum.
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?
I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.