Acting, music, painting… it’s very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.
BILLY BOYDFor me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they’re trying to tell.
More Billy Boyd Quotes
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I think once you get it in your head, that you’re not going to do anything bigger, you just do things that you enjoy, which has always been my ethos anyway.
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He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.
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I think the ears are a strange look for me. Quite big. But I loved the hair down to my shoulders. It felt right. I’m thinking of letting my hair go.
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To play one of the main characters in it, it’s not the kind of thing you don’t do. Oh, I’d rather not play Pippin in Lord of the Rings…
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Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. Its not glam.
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I think I have a gift… but I haven’t really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.
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I’d like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace… and I think that’ll probably do.
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In fact, I’m trying to think – what else would you rather do, you know? I can’t actually think of another job that I’d rather do.
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I think Scotland has some great stories.
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I wasn’t into Tolkien at school really. But the story is timeless, the themes that it touches on are contained in cultures all around the world.
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For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they’re trying to tell.
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I was probably about fourteen I think, and probably like every boy who’s fourteen that writes a song, it was about a girl. It was about a girl who I really liked, but she didn’t like me as much as I liked her. I think most guys go through that.
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People are scared to make something that doesn’t look like another film that made a lot of money. It means we get ‘Four Weddings And A Funeral’ made again and again.
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I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense.
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Strangely enough, the first time I tried to read [The Lord of the Rings] I was on holiday in Florida. I dropped it in the pool my first day there. If that’s not a Pippin thing to do, I don’t know what is.
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