He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.
BILLY BOYDActing, 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.
More Billy Boyd Quotes
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Sometimes the songs you think will be best don’t turn out to be best.
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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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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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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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I think Scotland has some great stories.
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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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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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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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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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My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
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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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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.
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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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Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.
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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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