Quotes about Elijah Wood

[gia21ca]

I came across these wonderful quotes about Elijah on an old website some time ago, they are a must read.

"Elijah reminds me of those statues of idealized young men on war-memorials throughout the world: more sublime than human and with a complexion of molten marble. He is simply terrific." ~ Ian McKellan from The Making of The Towers Book

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[ambree40]

Thank you for posting this. It's nice to see what people he works with say about him.

I believe it was John Rhys-Davies who said: "Elijah will always be a rather quirky character actor". I love that quote and I think Elijah's post-Rings career proves that John was right.

[gia21ca]

I love that quote too, there are a lot of new quotes that could be added to this old list. It would be nice to put together a whole new list. Liev Schreiber has some good ones.

"If the eyes are the windows to the soul, Elijah Wood has garage doors." - Liev Schreiber

"I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood." - Liev Schreiber

"There's something insanely sweet about him. And he is a very, very, very good-natured person. He is a truly kind person. I put him in some of the worst circumstances that you could put a human being in and there were homeless guys who I'd hired to be in the movie because I liked the way they looked, and they complained sooner than Elijah did." - Liev Schreiber

[ambree40]

Those are really great quotes from Liev Schreiber. David Zuckerman from Wilfred and Franck Khalfoun from Maniac also said some very interesting things about Elijah. Zuckerman compared him with Chaplin. And Khalfoun was so sorry they were shooting Maniac from Franck Zito's point of view because Elijah was giving this marvelous performance but "nobody was going to see it". Tells you a lot about Elijah's commitment to the projects he works on.

[gia21ca]

Do you have the exact quote from David Zuckerman?

Dominic Monaghan also made a reference to Charlie Chaplin when he was talking about Elijah.