Elijah Wood

“I have always kept a pretty healthy separation between my work in my film and my life outside of it.”

“This bizarre industry presents so many paths of temptation. If you don't have some kind of foundation, typically from family, then it will be difficult to deal with.”

“I think 'The Lord of the Rings' holds perhaps a deeper place in people's hearts than 'The Hobbit' the book does.”

“I don't fear death or ageing, but I fear them in other people that I am close to.”

“If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would it go with the beat of your heart?”

“I love the smell right after a storm.”

“I grew up actually reading 'The Hobbit,' not 'The Lord of the Rings.' I loved 'The Hobbit' growing up.”

“Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.”

“I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed.”

“The older I've gotten, the more I've gotten a little precious about music-related films as it comes to biopics. I kind of don't want to see it; I'd rather see a documentary. And this is just coming from me. I love music documentaries; I kind of don't want to see people embodying those people.”

“If you're innocent, you have very little knowledge of the world, and you want to succeed. People with parasitic interests will see you as their prey.”

“As much as my primary vocation is that of an actor, if anything, I feel like I am more excited about filmmaking in general, so it's not always a specific role that I'm attracted to, but rather an entire piece that I want to be a part of.”

“In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.”

“Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.”

“It would be an amazing superpower to be able to make every person you meet feel better about the thing that makes them insecure.”

“The approach of 'Game of Thrones' is similar to 'The Lord of the Rings' in that it treats its source material almost like history, and it focuses as much on the human drama as it does on anything fantastical.”

“After 'Rings,' I had two feelings: One, I immediately didn't want to work on anything on a large scale. I wanted to work on something really small after I was finished filming the first three. But the other thing was that I had a continuing interest in working on things that were really different.”

“Putting a needle on a record is almost like you're making a commitment to listening to something.”

“There are a lot of vipers in this industry, people who only have their own interests in mind.”

“I had a woman breakdown and cry when she met me which was difficult to deal with because immediately when someone starts to cry, you want to comfort them, you know, 'Poor thing.' I comforted her. I tried to make her feel better.”