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.
There’s a difference between a failure and a fiasco… a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that’s a pretty cool concept.
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.
Steve McQueen is my style hero. He’s just cool, isn’t he?
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.’
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.
You can’t date if you’re famous. That’s how it seems to me.
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.
Movies like that aren’t about the visual effects and explosions. They’re human stories about family, about life, about death.
I’m still at the beginning of my career. It’s all a little new, and I’m still learning as I go.
The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?
The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
I’m always amazed at anyone’s interest in what I have to say.
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 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.
Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I’m very blessed to have the success that I’ve had, and that’s given me so many opportunities to work on being great.
Yeah, I’m kind of fit. And I’m quite careful about my diet.
I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.
I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.
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.’
People come into your life and people leave it… you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
Whatever happens in life is fine – just trust in that.
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.
Believing you’re something that you’re not excites the mind and the imagination. And it’s hopeful.
My mom used to tell me, ‘If you read 50 books, I’ll get you a motorbike.’
People think getting a new partner is like getting a new car.
I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that’s quite romantic.
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.
Attraction doesn’t stop when a child is born. It’s the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
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.