Quotes by Billy Boyd - Page 1

I think Scotland has some great stories.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Scotland
Stories
Thinking
Great Stories
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My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Habit
Sleep
Whistling
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After I've been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland.
Billy Boyd / Actor
America
Homesick
Scotland
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Sometimes the songs you think will be best don't turn out to be best.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Sometimes
Song
Thinking
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I think I have a gift, but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Given
Opened
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I think I have a gift... but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Given
Havens
Thinking
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The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Hair
People
Weekend
World Your People
Associate
World People Hair
Letting
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He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Apples
Cameras
Throwing
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Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It's all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Scottish
Enjoying
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Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Land
Scots
Scottish
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I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Art
Listening
Thinking
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I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. Id go out with a board under my arm and think, I cant do that in Cranhill.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Beach
Thinking
Venice
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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.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Acting
Direct
Scripts
Thinking
Script
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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.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Thinking
Winning
Writing
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I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. I'd go out with a board under my arm and think, 'I can't do that in Cranhill.'
Billy Boyd / Actor
Beach
Surfing
Venice
Arm
Board
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In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my guitar and perform Oh Jean.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Facts
Guitar
Party
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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.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Eight
Seven
Trying
Years
Ground
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In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my guitar and perform 'Oh Jean.'
Billy Boyd / Actor
Perform
In Fact
Jean
Russell
Russell Crowe
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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.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Dip
Fun
Lying
Night
Opening
Nights
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Then there are actors my age like Ethan Hawke, he's in 'Moby Dick,' I love his work. I've been lucky. Alfred Molina, he has real class.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Love Work Age
Moby
Moby Dick
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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 Boyd / Actor
Acting
Actors
Thinking
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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.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Character
Stories
Trying
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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.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Leaving
Lying
Noon
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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. It's not glam.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Glam
Lying
Noon
Sun
Traffic
La
Meeting
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Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Thinking
Want
Years
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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 / Actor
Hair
Looks
Thinking
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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 / Actor
Bigger
Ethos
Thinking
Always Your Anything
Anyway
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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.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Funeral
Mean
People
Money Look People
Weddings
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I'm so pleased that I'm coming back to Armageddon, just to meet everyone. I'm very excited about doing it, I've heard great things about Armageddon and I'm just really excited to get there.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Armageddon
Coming Back
Excited
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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 / Actor
People
Together
White
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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.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Firsts
Florida
Holiday
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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 / Actor
Army
Goodbye
Song
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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.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Girl
Song
Writing
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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... 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.
Billy Boyd / Actor
Jobs
Character
Thinking
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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. 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 / Actor
Country
Evil
School
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