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I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I’d like to direct rather than act.

Billy Boyd

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 BOYD

Acting Actors Thinking
A lot of ideas took us to dead ends or we found the tone wasn’t just right. I think we discovered very quickly this wasn’t just a song to end The Battle of the Five Armies – it was a song to say goodbye to Middle-earth.
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Army Battle Discover End Goodbye Song
But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.
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Eight Trying Years
I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t fun to go to these nights out, like the opening of a film or something, but I dip in and out of it.
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Fun Lying Night
I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I’d like to direct rather than act.
BILLY BOYD

Acting Script Thinking
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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Influence People Together White
I think I have a gift… but I haven’t really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.
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Given Havens Thinking
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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Bigger Ethos Thinking
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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Country Dropped Firsts Holiday
He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.
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Apples Cameras Throwing
The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.
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Hair People Weekend
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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Leaving Lying Noon
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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Girl Much Really Song Writing
My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
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Habit Sleep Whistling
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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Character Emotion Stories Trying
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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Character Jobs Thinking

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