I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.

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.

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

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.

I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'.

Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.

I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity.