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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

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
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 think Scotland has some great stories.
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Country Stories Thinking
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.
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Hair Looks Shoulder Thinking
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.
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Influence People Together White
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
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
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
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
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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Fun Lying Night
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
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
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
My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
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Habit Sleep Whistling
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
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 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 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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