Billy Boyd Quotes

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• After I've been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland.
• Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
• I think I have a gift, but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.
• I think Scotland has some great stories.
• The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.
• But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.

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