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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.

Billy Boyd

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.
BILLY BOYD

Character God Play Trying
The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.
BILLY BOYD

Hair People Weekend
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.
BILLY BOYD

Fun Lying Night
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.
BILLY BOYD

Funeral Mean People Something Wedding
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.
BILLY BOYD

Leaving Lying Noon
Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.
BILLY BOYD

Country Enjoying Land Scots
Sometimes the songs you think will be best don’t turn out to be best.
BILLY BOYD

Sometimes Song 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.
BILLY BOYD

Influence People Together White
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
I think Scotland has some great stories.
BILLY BOYD

Country Stories 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.
BILLY BOYD

Country Dropped Firsts Holiday
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.
BILLY BOYD

Hair Looks Shoulder 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.
BILLY BOYD

Character Emotion Stories Trying
I think I have a gift… but I haven’t really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.
BILLY BOYD

Given Havens Thinking
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
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…
BILLY BOYD

Character Jobs Thinking

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 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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