Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood

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

Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood

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.

Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood

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

Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood

I love the smell right after a storm.

Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood

Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.

Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood

I was lucky in the sense that I started work very young but had a solid family base provided by my mother. She instilled a strong sense of perspective and humility in me from a very early age.

Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood

I remember the first horror movie I saw - I was five years old; it was a direct-to-video movie called 'Truth or Dare: a Critical Madness,' which is sort of badly fantastic or fantastically bad. And then 'Gremlins' was an early movie that I saw, and 'Nightmare on Elm Street 3.'

Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood

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

Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood

If you can get your movie made the way you want to get it made, no matter what the end result is going to be, if people are going to see it, that's awesome.

Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.

Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood

I've always looked for roles that are different. I've tried to continue to challenge myself as an actor and work in varying styles of films.

Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood

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?

Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood

I feel like I'm constantly learning. Constantly trying to grow.

Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood

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.

Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood

When I was in my 20s, I started frequenting record stores, and there was one in particular called Tropicalia in Furs in New York City. It's closed now, but it was one of those magical places where you would walk in, and the owner would start playing you records and not let you leave. It was such an education.

Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood

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.

Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood

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

Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood

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