Sometimes the songs you think will be best don’t turn out to be best.
BILLY BOYDSometimes the songs you think will be best don’t turn out to be best.
More Billy Boyd Quotes
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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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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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My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
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He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.
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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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I think Scotland has some great stories.
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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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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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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.
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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’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 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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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.
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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 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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