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To be honest, I can’t see what’s wrong with a bit of impurity, a bit of gluttony or anger or all those other sins. We all make ourselves guilty of those to some degree but that doesn’t mean we’re sinners. I even think it’s healthy to have a bit of sin in your life.
I have to say that I almost never play music when I’m having sex. And if I do, it would be something from Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Billie Holliday or Al Green.
Although Metallica is never good as background music when you’re having sex. Stronger even: Metallica isn’t good for anything.
I’m maybe raised catholic and in a certain sense, I’m also very religious, but after I had sex, I’m definitely not going to feel guilty.
I rather prefer to meet women in a more spontaneous surrounding: in a bar or with friends.
But just approaching a woman and start flirting. No, I don’t do that.
As long as two people take a mutual decision to sleep together, I don’t see what’s wrong with that (on impurity).
A bit of impurity within a relationship is even healthy.
I only want to take roles where I really believe in. And if that means that I’m stuck with small, independent films that nobody’s interested in for the rest of my life, than I can live with that.
People misinterpret celebrity, misinterpret what those lives are like. They think everything is handed to you on a silver platter, but it fills your life with a lot more complications than you'd ever imagine.
Part of what I hate about the party thing is that, as a young actor in Hollywood, it's expected. In New Zealand, we'd go out to the bars on the weekends. We'd get back from the weekend and go into the office and the other people would say, So, did you guys go crazy this weekend? Did you have a fucking crazy party time? I was like, No. I hated it because it was expected. It made me reject it all the more.
A lot of guys judge themselves on how many women they've slept with. That's bullshit. Sexual prowess is not a way to define yourself. Who cares?"
I'm a fruit

I only want to take roles where I really believe in. And if that means that I’m stuck with small, independent films that nobody’s interested in for the rest of my life, than I can live with that.

Did you just shake your ass?
Hello! I'm Elijah Wood, and i'm a looser!
[On nailbiting] Chew for a bit and then spit, yeah, yeah.
Wink, wink! Nudge, nudge!
My God! Middle Earth does exist!
I love life. I've always been this way.
There's a lot more to life than Hollywood.
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
[USA Today, April 5, 1993] I like everything.
It's not just the men. Women get these things (nocturnal emissions) as well you know!
How many women here have had a nocturnal emission? That's right. No, you have to be asleep to have a nocturnal emission.
Peter used to come up to us with the most awful breath because he used to eat these pickled things.
I'm not a star. A star is nothing but a ball of gas!
I take that as a compliment. I like being too weird.
Well. I got a giant stuffed gorilla about three foot tall.
Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.
In the absense of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
I'm gonna keep it in the fridge. You know. Its a food item.
So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.
That's all right. You can call me Frodo. Go on, Dave, it's okay.
I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed.
Anything is suddenly romantic when your with someone that you care about. (Submitted by Eireann)
I don't know many actors that are that into music, to be honest.
If a girl has an English, French, Italian or German accent, I go crazy.

Part of what I hate about the party thing is that, as a young actor in Hollywood, it's expected. I hated it because it was expected. It made me reject it all the more.

I really had to pee and I was embarrased to tell my mother about it.
The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.
On a superficial level, I like girls with dark hair - I'm a sucker for that.
[On being an action figure] I'm a TOY! This is the coolest thing in the world!
[On his tatoo] My GOD! Ridiculous. I’ve never been in so much pain in my life.
I lived in New Zealand for 16 months, this was my life (on lord of the rings trilogy).
When you smoke and bite your nails at the same time, you know you've got issues.
I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.
You just assume that you have some anan, ana, ananonimity, anonymity? Yeah, anonimity.
I actually got a crush on Anne Heche when I worked with her on Huckleberry Finn. It didn't work out.
A dream I had as a child would be to hide in Disneyland and stay in the park overnight and get in for free.
And they're like, 'look, you know what? I'm not the Princess of whatever world, I'm, you know, Natalie Portman.'
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
The movie business is really no place for children, I was lucky. I'm sort of an anomaly that I made it through unscathed.
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?
There was a fan, a collector I guess, who offered (someone on the set) $50,000 for a pair of used hobbit feet. That's pretty wild.
Girls get a lot of pressure from guys to have sex, but they have to be empowered not to give in. And do not move forward [sexually] unless you're protected.
I've always believed that you can make a subtle difference in the world every single day by just being good. Being nice to people, smiling at them. (at 24)
Frodo has an amazing amount of trust in Gandalf, and anything that Gandalf would ask him to do, Frodo would know that it would be for the best.

Girls get a lot of pressure from guys to have sex, but they have to be empowered not to give in.

Marriage is way far away from me. Oh yes, oh God yes, almost definitely. Marriage is so far off, I gotta have a lot of life to live, I've got tO have a lot of things to do. Marriage is something I want to do when I am in my thirties...
I don't read the teen magazines. They're weird. I see headlines like 'Big Blue Eyes Elijah Wood: We've Got Him! I don't like that. It's so bubble-gummy.
Suddenly, I pass the magazines, and it occurs to me, at this moment in time, I need porn ... And chocolate, also. Somehow I needed the combination, the combination sounded really good. Well chocolate apparently is as good as sex so it makes kinda sense. Anyway, so I apparently did declare in the store I want porn and chocolate, don't really remember saying that, aloud, but apparently I did. Then I went home, dropped the bags and passed out so I didn't really partay.
I'm oddly insecure when it comes to women. It's kind of strange. I'm a really confident individual and I have a lot to offer. But when it comes down to it, I break it down and say, 'Ahhhh.'
It is a long time (on the 16 months working in NZ),and the great thing is we actually became a family, and the fellowship that is represented in the film, became a real fellowship, I mean I've made some of my best friends of my life on this picture. I'm so blessed to be a part of this project.
I was working in Austin, Texas, on 'The Faculty,' and that's where Harry lives, and he often visited the set because he was friends with Robert Rodriguez. And one day he came up to me, and he was like, 'Dude, they're making 'Lord of the Rings' as a feature. You gotta play Frodo!' And the news was really exciting, but they weren't casting for it at that point. It was just kind of in the news. I first heard about it from him, [but] I actually wasn't approached to audition for it until nearly a year later.
There were a lot of strange, new experiences for all of us in this movie, so it was just one of the many after a while. But it was certainly bizarre, especially to have a picture [taken with me and] my smaller self. I remember one day I noticed this kind of bin, and inside the bin, I opened it up, there were all of the Hobbit faces. And we took a picture of it, because it was so bizarre! It looked so eerie! Because nothing was filling the faces. They were just these blank expressions.
Yeah, you know, Salma Hayek I've worked with her, Brooke Shields, I've worked with her, I have their phone numbers... and you're gonna hate me even more cuz I don't call them!

When you smoke and bite your nails at the same time, you know you've got issues.

That was the most emberassing thing I've ever had to do (On his on-screen kiss in Flipper)
If I'm with friends, I want to talk about sports or games or a new CD that's coming out. When we talk about me, it's about me as a person, not an actor. That's great. That's a relief.
[On his character Leo in Deep Impact] I think Leo is a really sweet kid. He's sort of weak and sort of insecure at the beginning. He's sort of different than everybody else, and I like that.
[On his hobbit feet] They actually go bad, if you let them have too much air after awhile, they start smelling like urine...
Child acting is a cut-throat world, which is pretty frightening and really silly in retrospect. But it's the parents who are evil. It is a really difficult world to live in if you don't have a base, if you don't have a strong sense of yourself. My mom wanted me to maintain a reasonable degree of normalcy and to enjoy my childhood. Family is so important. I rarely meet families who are as close as we are. I feel really blessed.
If I were out there with kids my own age, I fear that they wouldn't like me, not because of who I am but because I'm an actor. It's scary-it's like you can't trust anybody. (Elijah aged 13).
I'm kind of a monkey, I like to jump around. I can't sit down. I have to keep moving. I like moving and running around and having fun.(Elijah age 12).
I'm not on drugs. I'm not an alcoholic. I've just got incredible people backing me up...I wouldn't even think about taking drugs. I think it's ridiculous! I think people are throwing their lives away. River Phoenix was such a talented actor. I would have loved to see him win an Oscar. He so deserved it. Obviously he got mixed in with the wrong crowd. That ruined him. I love life. I've always been this way.
[On Casey in the Faculty] He is weakly, definitely weakly. Which is good, because I didn't really play anything like him before. I was very excited to mix it up and do something different. I had to play the insecure without the clichees, which all those alltype characters have connected to them. That was the challenge I and everyone else had as well.
The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.
I was living in Iowa where I was born. I was about six years old, when my mother was watching a tv commercial one day, and it popped into her head that I´d love to do this. 'He loves life, he's got a ton of energy, it's a great channel for energy.

I still find it incredibly strange, the breakup of Brad and Gwyneth made the front page of newspapers. That's our focus? That's kind of sad.

That’s the kind of movie that should be making massive money - not that fucking Pearl Harbor piece of shit!
I haven't gotten that far yet. I want to write some things for myself as an experiment. I don't want to limit myself in saying that I want to do a particular type of thing. I am open to everything, I am just interested in that whole process of filmmaking. Lighting, the visuals really amaze me, and to plan the visuals with something profound.
Family life has kept me going in the sense that I’ve been able to enjoy a normal childhood. My mom Debbie has been a constant source of support. I have an older brother, Zach, and a younger sister, Hannah, and we’re a close-knit group. I have seen what can go wrong with people who start off as child stars, such as Macaulay Culkin.
[Entertainment Weekly, November 25, 1994] I think God gave me a talent to use for the positive and to do an horror movie would be, like, overstepping my bounds. If I was to do a horror film, I wouldn't want to be paid. It would be like a vacation, because you don't really have to use your acting skills.
It was pretty accurate! It was kind of ghostly. But it was also quite cool as well, because we all got to stand back and watch people of real Hobbit size walk around and, essentially, they were Hobbits.
Isn't it funny you say that! Yeah, it does! Well, it also means 'Messenger of God,' but I believe it does mean Chosen One.
I find it offensive that it reflects on us that we as a society are fascinated by other people's lives and need that kind of information and it's more sensitive when you are kind of in the middle of it and you recognize that that could kind of be you at some point or people could be that interested in your private life and it's a weird thing. It's bizarre. I still find it incredibly strange, the breakup of Brad and Gwyneth made the front page of newspapers. That's our focus? That's kind of sad.
I will be completely honest. I am not a huge fan of awards shows. It's a little -- it can be a little overwhelming -- it was fun for Lord of the Rings and I enjoyed the process, the first couple of times for the first couple of award shows, but once you've been to five in a row, it's a lot of fanfare that gets kind of old, especially if you're not particularly interested in the awards. I don't find it to be all that important. I would rather be home watching those kind of things on television. My God, the Oscars were -- I think it was like five hours. I was nearly falling asleep on camera. It was funny. I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed.

If I were out there with kids my own age, I fear that they wouldn't like me, not because of who I am but because I'm an actor.

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.
There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the States. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.
The Hobbit feet were great initially, but the novelty did wear off. I've never worn that many prosthetics before, it was an incredible work of art, a defining feature. We started at 5am and had to stand for an hour and a half while they applied them, so we did get tired after awhile. My feet were the sweatiest so it would melt the glue and they would fall off after awhile.
My older brother told me, 'Stay away from women', and I'm taking it to heart. I'm staying clear. It's kind of like a museum where they have those really cool paintings. They're behind the glass and you can look at them, but you can't touch them. That's what it's like with girls. I can get myself into trouble. And also it's hard because I'm an actor and girls might not like me for who I am. That's hard to deal with.
The people need to be responsible and not be influenced so much by movies. As far as content goes in films, the morals of the people have definitely declined. I mean, even just four years ago, movies that are rated NC-17 were unheard of.
I love words. I think they're amazing, especially really complicated words, which can hold so much more meaning than some simple words. I think that as far as an expression of something that is artistically incredible, I like the word brilliant. But it's interesting that in Ireland and England, the word brilliant is close to the equivalent of cool. But I also like the word persnickety, which means finicky with details. I don't use it very often, but I like it.
[On the anti-MP3 movement] The whole anti-MP3 thing pisses me off and especially Lars Ulrich. People had the opportunity to listen to bands they'd never heard before. It was doing more good than harm but people with greed for money were trying to stop a revolution. I don't like his attitude.
[about urinating in Peter Jackson's favourite fountain in Wellington, NZ, after a night out drinking:] We were walking home and saw this fountain. Dom [Dominic Monaghan] and I looked at it and he said 'We should conquer it.' Once we got to the top, what else was there to do but urinate in it? [quoted in MX (Melbourne, Australia), December 11, 2003]
[on celebrity:] I won't change and my perspective won't change. I want to continue my life the way I live it, and I'm not going to let anything stop me from doing that. It isn't all about acting. There's a lot more to life than Hollywood.

Peter used to come up to us with the most awful breath because he used to eat these pickled things.

[on worrying about the high expectations of Lord of the Rings fans when he was cast as Frodo:] I definitely felt the pressure. I wanted to live up to all of the expectations. But when I got into costume and worked with the others, I just didn't think about it anymore.
[after the last press junket for LOTR in New York:] There's a real sense of completion now, because we can look at the entirety of the trilogy and say we've done it, our work is finished. That's a great feeling. And I think that, as it comes to a close, we look to the relationships forged in New Zealand and throughout the experience, and they will carry on. The fellowship will carry on. And that gives us great hope. Our lives will interweave forever. [December 18, 2003]
[on filming the scene in _Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003)_ in which Sam tries to make Frodo recall the Shire:] That day was very difficult and it was a long day. I remember Peter [Peter Jackson] actually crying on set after a few takes. It was a real defining moment for Sean [Sean Astin] and I, not only in this film, but in our acting. [December 14, 2003]
[on New Zealand:] I will go back ... I think Bill (Billy Boyd) and Dom (Dominic Monaghan) and I are thinking of buying a house together. We don't want to lose our connection with New Zealand - I love the country and I love Wellington and I want to go back. I would love to have a place to live there if I do go back for any period of time. It would just be a time share. It makes the most sense for us to go in on a place, 'cause then we can get a great place. We could be there together and have holidays there, or if I wanted to go there and live there for a little while I could. It just kind of makes sense. Then we could rent it out when we aren't there. That's the idea, anyway. (On hearing this, Billy Boyd said, Elijah said that, huh? He put a curse on it.) [December 12, 2003]
[hearing that Sean Astin wanted to correct rumors that his character Sam Gamgee had a homosexual love for Frodo:] Yeah, we've never had that perspective on the relationship, but there is a real bond and a real closeness. Which was easy for Sean and I because we became so close making the film. So it's a natural thing to display and to show and I think it comes across without any real effort ... Frodo really starts to fail physically and emotionally and mentally, so Sam is there to kind of pick up the pieces and show his affection for Frodo and really almost carry him to the end. So that relationship is really important in this film, particularly. I think it's really refreshing and nice. I'm really close with my friends and affectionate, and I don't think that there is anything suspicious about that, necessarily. So it's good to show it and have it be an unisexual thing, definitely. [The Toronto Star, December 12, 2003]

Sexual prowess is not a way to define yourself. Who cares?

[on concluding filming of LOTR:] Frodo will look more haggard, but not as bad as Gollum. There is a massive transformation, but the journey should have a physical effect on him, which makes sense as I look a lot older than when I started filming. I was 18 then, and it's appropriate that he looks older too. And if I've done my job right, then you should empathize with him. When it came to the end, I was very emotional. I was heaving, I couldn't breathe, and the last bits of the movie really wrecked me. They gave each actor his own farewell, when we were back there earlier this year. You'd go on to a sound stage and Peter would make a speech about each actor and then bring in their sword and a clapperboard. It was completely overwhelming. When it came time for me to give a speech, I was so gone I just couldn't do it. I now have the ears, the feet, the sword, the Ring, and one of the maps of Middle-Earth. The whole thing has had a massive impact on us. I think Bill and Dom and I are thinking about buying a house here [in New Zealand], because we don't want to lose our connection with the country. It makes most sense to go in on a place because we could use it like a timeshare and then holiday at different times or together. But we're so lazy and completely hopeless at doing things, so it remains to be seen if it'll ever happen. [December 11, 2003]
My agent called me and said, 'Look, they're casting 'Lord of the Rings'; Peter Jackson is gonna direct it, and you should go in and put yourself on tape', [But] the idea of putting myself on tape in a casting office wasn't particularly attractive to me, mainly because I wanted to try to convey my passion for the project and for the role, and going into the casting office against a white background and being put on tape did not seem at all conducive to what I wanted to portray. So I [decided to do] my own tape, which I'd never done before, but I figured that this project deserved my own interpretation and my full attention. So I got a voice coach and worked on my accent for a little while, and then a few friends of mine got together and we went up to the Hollywood Hills after getting some costumes at Western Costume, and we shot the scenes like you would a film, [with] various angles and things. And we went that night to the Miramax offices and borrowed their Avid machine and edited it together, and the next day I brought the video into the casting office and I kind of let it go, just knowing that I'd put my best foot forward in terms of getting the role, and I would see what happened. And it all went from there.
[On ever being in love] Oh, fuck me, Jesus Christ. I was in love, you know what, once, but it was that kind of young, fresh, puppy-love thing that you get when you're like sixteen. It was this girl named Sarah. She used to come to my house at five o'clock in the morning, and we'd just hold each other on the couch for like twenty minutes and then she'd go off to school.
[On what went wrong] We were both young. In all honesty it was more about - the breakup was more about her needing me, and I didn't want to be with someone that needed me. It was really hard to, you know, basically be someone's happiness, and be responsible for that...

I even think it’s healthy to have a bit of sin in your life.

Completely unattached. I miss it. Really miss it. You know, it's dangerous, because I'm terribly romantic... I used to get myself into these relationships that were more about my idealization of love than the fact that I'm really in love with them. However, it's wonderful being single. It's always in flux. I'm looking but I'm not looking.
Oh that was a blast! I mean to play a 17 year old hitman who's completely unsuccessful at what he does. It was awesome! I had a blast. I'd love to do more things like that. I'd love to do more comedies you know. Especially comedies like that, that are so sort of strange and weird and brilliantly written.
We missed our family and friends - yeah - a lot. But living in New Zealand, I think, took on a life of it's own. Being down there! And I sort of created a new family while I was there - I was so far away from my own family. And as much as I missed them, and missed my friends the life in New Zealand became so important to me as well. It was kind of rare that I'd call home because it sort of took all my time.
I used to. I used to write sort of short stories and creative writing. I was better at writing essays than writing original ideas and fiction. But I haven't written in so long. And I think I get out in my writing style in my emails and things. But I haven't actually sat down to write something in a while. I should! It's something I've been meaning to do, but I'm too afraid that I'll be bad and it's just going to suck. I know I should.
Between the two? I'd have to say 'North'. Because I like... I think the story's brilliant. I don't know if it's the best movie, but I love the story.
I'd have to say, probably Queenstown. It's so beautiful in the South Island. South Island's my favourite out of all the places we went to as a whole, the South Island's my favourite. But I'd say Queenstown specifically because it was some of the most beautiful pieces of location that we ever filmed at and we spent quite a lot of time down there. It's stunning.
Yeah. That was fucking unbelievable! We would occasionally film on tops of mountains and then we would have to take helicopters up to these mountain tops, which was just incredibly beautiful and I'd never been in a helicopter before this. So it was amazing. But there was that one specific place where we had to actually climb above the clouds on this snowy mountain-top and it was just stunning. So beautiful. And that was the... you know... a day for us.

It was really hard to, you know, basically be someone's happiness, and be responsible for that.

We would go back and re-record a lot of the dialogue in ADR because we shot the movie with a guide track. So we knew that we'd have to go back and re-record everything. So, in that process ermm... we actually, you know... we intentionally, made the voice a little bit lower. It gives him just a little bit more of a wiser resonance, which is important. Thanks. That's wicked!
There's a lot of things I'd like to do. In five years time I'd like to have directed my first movies, hopefully. I have set up a production company so that I can help facilitate other movies. I don't know... a record label? I love music, so I'd love to facilitate music as well. So those kind of things. I kind of want to accomplish other things beyond simply acting. And you know, with acting as well. That would be brilliant if I could do all those things..
Yeah. There's a film, I mean a book, by Douglas Copeland called 'Girlfriend in a Coma' that I really want to make into a film. I wouldn't want to act in it necessarily. I just think it's an incredible story. It would be logistically interesting in terms of the apocalypse at the end. But I would love to turn that into a film and I've actually spoken to Douglas about it himself and he was like 'Yeah. I'm not real interested in that!' so we'll see what happens. I'd like to do that.
[problems with mics] Fucking thing. Is this the year that swearing's banned at ORC?
From Everything Is Illuminated, I took the glasses and a suit, a great black suit, also a kindof blue tuxedo that didn't make it into the movie. There's a lot of stuff you'll see on the dvd, dream sequences.
I took the costume from Huckleberry Finn... it doesn't fit ... funny that.
I took the poster in Huckleberry Finn, the wanted ad for Jim the slave, the knife from that. Collecting things from movies is really fun, but if you're lucky to work a lot, you amass things. I'm such a packrat, and i have a small house.
I don't know how many people check simianrecords.com, I feel so guilty that there's nothing there. I'm taking my time, going to work on the web site first, PO box to send stuff. Learn as much as I possibly can, the business side i'm not familiar with, learn and grow. The web page will be updated eventually, keep an eye on it.

There's a lot more to life than Hollywood.

I dunno, you know, it's, um, there are a lot of actors who are very good at crying on cue and getting into an emotional state. But I find it difficult to get into an emotional state. There are actor tricks of the trade as it were. There are like these menthol drops and things you can blow in your eye, the technical part. but the emotional part...
I have serious nail biting problem, I didn't curb it during the movie, it's not a character thing that I did on purpose. Ian McKellen said it was brave but...
It's hard to answer questions like that. I never think about myself, I'm always learning from other people, never think what other people learned from me.
[On Lost] Obsessively. I love it. I started watching it out of love and respect for Dom, and now I'm hooked.
[On Lost favourite character] I don't know... Locke I think. It's difficult to pick a favorite character in that show, because there's a duality to each character. You can follow a character for four shows, and then there's a flashback, and they're different people. I think it's awesome, all the secrets and stuff, the symbols.... you know when the boy, what's his name? comes out of the words, he speaks backwards. I look like a bad fan now.
[On Sin City] A couple of weeks before, I inquired if there would be action. They said, do you have any wire experience? and I said no because I've been in a harness, but... I get there I'm doing full-on wire work, in a very unprofessional way, God darn the editing makes it look good. It was a full day, I was doing kicks, I couldn't move the next day.
[On the tattoos] The idea came up months and months and months prior, we ultimately decided on it about two months before filming finished, all got them together. Except John Rhys Davies, his stunt double got it. And Sean Bean.
No, I'll never quit acting.
[On where he got his blue eyes] From my mother. I'm half Polish, too.
[On Bobby] I know, it's crazy. And it's funny, when we started filming the movie, there were literally cast members that were added, like, the night before. Heather Graham, I believe, was cast the night before I started working, and just immediately jumped in. It's pretty amazing.
I can remember being in love with music when I was six, seven. I had a tape of the Monkees that I'd play incessantly. But when I fully grasped music, and the wide variety that it is, was probably around 11 or 12. And I became obsessed. I was lucky enough to travel at a very young age, and I was constantly meeting different kinds of people, and thusly exposed to all sorts of music at a young age, and I ate it up. And I've been passionate about it, and searching ever since.
Oh my god, no, it's so not true. Yeah I don't -- I don't know, ... nor would I ever, I would never buy a Ferrari.
Tell you what man, it was nearly five hours sitting in that chair. Five fucking hours of that. I mean, I didn't, look. I went because you know, I wanted to be there for the movie, and that sort of opportunity doesn't come out often that you're part of a movie that gets that kind of recognition, and you want to support it. And I was so glad to be there.

Fucking thing. Is this the year that swearing's banned at ORC?

I was falling asleep too and that was terrible because we were all sat the LOTR crew essentially was sat in the front and the second row from the front, so we're all in one pocket. So they had the camera there the whole time. So they had, you know, they had these guys, these little crews running around with cameras to get, like, reactions because we were there and we had tons of awards. And they wanted to get our reactions on the things, so they had the cameras right there, and I would be just sort of sitting there like you know, nodding off, Which was terrible.
Wouldn't that be terrible if I just was like, every once in a while "Hi Pete, how are you, let's make it seem like we're friends...
Uh no, I love Pete, I love Pete, he's been so busy, and you know the thing about it, the nature of friendship is, when you're really close with someone, specially someone that you've been through an experience like that with, you don't always call and you don't always keep in touch.
Yes, I love music. I have done a bit of DJing, I wouldn't, I think DJ purists would probably hate me because I only DJ with cds.
[On Sean Astin calling Elijah a "a beautiful man"] Yeah, well, yeah, there is no gay, there is no gay connotation to that whatsoever.
All right, there is- there- there's got- this has to be fucking-
[On if he knew that the dolphin in Flipper died (in a car accident) Yes. No, I did not know that. That's terrible
They're so outgoing and so trusting that it was easy to make friends with them. But getting them to do things on cue is another thing. [on working with dolphins]
[To Dom Monaghan] I fucking knew it! That was fucking brilliant, you asshole!
[On Sean Astin] I hadn’t. I met him about four or five days before I flew to New Zealand for the first time. He was getting his wig fitted, as I needed to get mine fitted. I went to this hotel, and we kind of crossed paths in the lobby. Obviously we both knew who [the] other was. And we kind of stopped and looked at each other, and we just ran and gave each other a massive hug—and that was the first time I ever met him. It was this instant connection because we knew what we were about to embark on together.
We stood on a box. I had the sweatiest feet amongst the hobbits. So my hobbit feet tended to come off very quickly. The glue kinda melted away.
We were constantly walking around trying to figure out if they we’re going to show the feet or not. Most of the time we knew—we knew—they weren’t going to use them, and they would not admit it because they wanted to cover their ass. So constantly we’d come to them and say, “Look, they’re not going to be seen so can you just say they’re not going to be seen, so we can have an extra hour of sleep tomorrow?” And they’re like, “No, Peter doesn’t know what he’s gonna see in the shot.” Nine times out of 10 they wouldn’t agree with us, and we’d have to suck it up and put our feet on—and we would be right.

People who just have an interest in getting your autograph to sell it - I find that to be really fucking sad.

[On the drinking age in NZ] I did. I think they actually switched it. It was 20 initially and they switched it to either 19 or 18 when I got there.
[During filming of LOTR] I did have a couple of relationships, though. I’m a hopeless romantic so it’s difficult not to over that period of time.
That was an idea that we had early on, but a few of the fellowship members were reluctant to do it at first because they felt like, “What if this isn’t a good thing? We don’t know enough about how the production’s gonna go now to determine whether getting a tattoo is a great decision.” So we took a wait-and-see attitude.
[Don the LOTR tattoo] And then we all went to this one guy in Wellington, kind of an older guy, who has this parlor. He opened on a Sunday for us. And the fellowship entered and we stood by each other as we all got branded.
That was awkward, at the time I wasn't exactly comfortable with any kind of sexuality around my mom. It wasn't just a kissing scene, it was highly clinical. You know, tongues and mouths.
People who just have an interest in getting your autograph to sell it - I find that to be really fucking sad.
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.