Quotes

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On Elrond in the Council:
"I love the way he's all 'one of you must do this' - well, why don't you do it, mate?"

On how he first decided to become an actor:
"Once I realised Superman was an actor, I thought, 'That's for me, mate.'"

"You could say I got into acting mainly for the women. "

On the casting of LOTR:
"On Rings', if you were short you were cast as a Hobbit, if you were tall you were cast as a human, and if you
were kind of weird and mousy looking, you were cast as an elf."

On Peter Jackson [LOTR director]:
"He's as cool as an elf, he's got the heart of a hobbit, and he's as mad as a wizard."

On working on the LOTR movie:
"I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how
bad could that be?"

On Legolas:
"Legolas doesn't speak a lot - he prefers to let his actions speak for him."

"Legolas' moves are smooth and elegant, like a cat... it's very balletic. It's also bloody hard to do without falling over!"

"I will take Legolas, and this experience in New Zealand, wherever I go. The beautiful thing about being an actor
is every character you embrace, when you move on, you take part of the character with you."

"I thought of Legolas as a gun, and his arrows as his bullets."

On New Zealand:
"My God, this country... it's, like, so raw and beautiful... it's kind of overwhelming. I feel like the luckiest man alive."

On...umm, practical jokes:
"Never eat a Mars Bar offered to you by Andrè Schneider."

On Men being jealous of Elves ;-):
"Vig used to call me 'elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty.
And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails."

"The camaraderie involves quite a lot of good-natured ribbing, particularly between Aragorn and Legolas. "We have
these digs at each other," *laughs* "Viggo will go on about Elves and how they're always doing their nails and brushing their long, blonde hair, and being all prissy. And I just say: Well, at least I'm going to live forever! Got that? LIVE FOREVER!"

On how he got the part in Black Hawk Down:
"My character breaks his back, and I had mentioned I had done that when I was up for the part. Who knows why one actor gets a job and another doesn't? I think it was just good timing that I happened to be there and I had had the experience - I mean, I was lucky."

After he got an Empire Award:
"I think my mum will have [my award] in pride of place somewhere beside my grandmother on the mantelpiece."

On his accidents:
"I'm rather accident-prone, I have to admit. I've broken my back, my ribs, my nose, both my legs, my arm, my wrist, a
finger and a toe and cracked my skull three times."

"I broke my back. I fell out of a window... some friends had a roof terrace on the landing before their apartment, and I fell off the drain pipe. It gave way, actually, and I fell three floors. I was told I might not walk again. So, for about four days, I was contemplating that as a serious part of reality. Then they operated, and I walked out of the hospital in about twelve days."

On his career so far:
"It's all very surreal. I've had two very fantastic experiences in Lord of the Rings and in Black Hawk Down. I feel very lucky. I'm sort of doubly excited."