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Sometimes the songs you think will be best don’t turn out to be best.

Billy Boyd

The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.
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Hair People Weekend
He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.
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Apples Cameras Throwing
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
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.
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Leaving Lying Noon
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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Character God Play Trying
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 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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Girl Much Really Song Writing
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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Character Emotion Stories Trying
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
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
My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
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Habit Sleep Whistling
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
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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Character Jobs Thinking
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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Thinking Winning Writing
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.
BILLY BOYD

Countries Different Inanimate Incoent Pretender
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

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