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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.

Billy Boyd

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.
BILLY BOYD

Country Dropped Firsts Holiday
Sometimes the songs you think will be best don’t turn out to be best.
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Sometimes Song Thinking
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 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.
BILLY BOYD

Country Evil School
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.
BILLY BOYD

Character Emotion Stories Trying
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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Countries Different Inanimate Incoent Pretender
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 really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I’d like to direct rather than act.
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Acting Script Thinking
The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.
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Hair People Weekend
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.
BILLY BOYD

Girl Much Really Song Writing
My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
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Habit Sleep Whistling
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
He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.
BILLY BOYD

Apples Cameras Throwing
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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Country Enjoying Land Scots
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 think Scotland has some great stories.
BILLY BOYD

Country Stories Thinking

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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