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 BOYDI 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.
More Billy Boyd Quotes
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My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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I think I have a gift… but I haven’t really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.
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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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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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Sometimes the songs you think will be best don’t turn out to be best.
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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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