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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.

Billy Boyd

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
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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Country Dropped Firsts Holiday
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.
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Army Battle Discover End Goodbye Song
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 Scotland has some great stories.
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Country Stories Thinking
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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Eight Trying Years
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
My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
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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
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
The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.
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Hair People Weekend
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
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
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

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