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

Billy Boyd

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
I think Scotland has some great stories.
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Country Stories 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
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 BOYD

Eight Trying Years
My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
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Habit Sleep Whistling
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
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.
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Fun Lying Night
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.
BILLY BOYD

Acting Actors Thinking
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.
BILLY BOYD

Bigger Ethos Thinking
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
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
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
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
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.
BILLY BOYD

Army Battle Discover End Goodbye Song
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

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