Elijah Quotes

(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)

"I always trusted him. If there was a way that I had seen something and he had seen it differently, I would ... trust his vision. We were in brilliant hands." -- Elijah Wood on filming "Lord of the Rings," December 14, 2003

(on hearing that Elijah Wood told a reporter that Monaghan, Wood, and Billy Boyd were considering sharing a home in New Zealand:) "He has all these grand plans. We did look at property in New Zealand. What we`re going to do first, correct me if I`m wrong, is we`re going to buy property in our respective territories. Billy is going to buy a beautiful little cottage in Edinburgh and Elijah is going to buy some in L.A." (Boyd corrected him, "Glasgow!") (December 12, 2003)

(about a game called "Tig" made up as a prank on Elijah Wood early in the shooting of "The Lord of the Rings":) "So we -- the three of us (Billy Boyd, Monaghan, and Sean Astin) -- were constantly getting it right. And every time Elijah tried a new way of tigging, we`d say, `No, Elijah, you can`t tig on a tog, you can`t tag on a tig, you have to do an elephant impression if you`re gonna tig Billy." (He adds that the prank went on for a year before the three `fessed up.) (December 14, 2003)

(on his friendship with Billy Boyd, Elijah Wood, and Orlando Bloom:) "We all look after each other and support each other. Billy and I went down to Mexico to see Orlando Bloom when he was working on Troy (2004), we went to see Billy in a play, and I went to see Elijah when he was filming in New York. We all just look after each other, and hopefully that will continue to happen. We`re a brotherhood, a fellowship." (December 11, 2003)

I really don`t think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.

Everything that I`m attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people.

Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.

I loved Elijah Muhammad with a love that I can`t adequately describe.

(on the bond between the four hobbit-actors:) "We`re really good friends. We spent last New Year together. Sean`s married and has children, so he has other things that he has to do, but me, Dom, and Elijah all spent New Year in the borders of Scotland and England." (December 14, 2003)

(teasing a journalist who asked about the hobbits` popularity in the gay community:) "We had to learn how to canoe. I don`t know why, because we don`t do it in the movie, but it was part of our training. And there was a group shower. All the Americans, though, they were quite scared. Elijah and Sean just, like, didn`t have a shower and left, but me, Orlando and Dominic, in our British way, all got involved in showers. But it was just a shower." (December 18, 2003)