But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.
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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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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I think Scotland has some great stories.
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The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.
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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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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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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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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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The innocent on a quest, the pretender, an inanimate object that holds evil – it’s really strange that these themes are there in so many different countries’ folklore.
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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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He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.
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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 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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I think I have a gift… but I haven’t really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.
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Sometimes the songs you think will be best don’t turn out to be best.
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