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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.

Billy Boyd

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
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
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 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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Bigger Ethos 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
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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Funeral Mean People Something Wedding
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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Acting Actors Thinking
I think Scotland has some great stories.
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Country Stories Thinking
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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Countries Different Inanimate Incoent Pretender
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 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
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
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
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
Sometimes the songs you think will be best don’t turn out to be best.
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Sometimes Song Thinking
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 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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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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