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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, the first time I tried to read [The Lord of the Rings] I was on holiday in Florida. I dropped it in… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend. — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
I think the ears are a strange look for me. Quite big. But I loved the hair down to my shoulders. It felt right.… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. Id go out with a board under my arm and think, I cant do that in… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
I think I have a gift, but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself. — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
![“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.” quote by Billy Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/326/billy-boyd-20206_books_strangely-enough-the-first-time-i-tried_319741.jpg)
