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 BOYDThe 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.
More Billy Boyd Quotes
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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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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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My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
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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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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 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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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 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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The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.
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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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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.
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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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Sometimes the songs you think will be best don’t turn out to be best.
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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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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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