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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.

Billy Boyd

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
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
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
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
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
He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.
BILLY BOYD

Apples Cameras Throwing
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
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 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
My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
BILLY BOYD

Habit Sleep Whistling
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
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

Girl Much Really Song Writing
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
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
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
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

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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