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Billy Boyd

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 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
My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
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Habit Sleep Whistling
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
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
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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Country Evil School
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
Sometimes the songs you think will be best don’t turn out to be best.
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Sometimes Song 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 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
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
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
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
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
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

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