Billy Boyd Quotes

• 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

  Thinking, Years, Want

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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

  Holiday, Florida, Firsts

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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

  Land, Scottish, Scots

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes the songs you think will be best don't turn out to be best.

  Billy Boyd

  Song, Thinking, Sometimes

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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

  Character, Trying, Stories

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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

  Art, Thinking, Listening

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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

  Apples, Cameras, Throwing

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• After I've been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland.

  Billy Boyd

  Scotland, America, Homesick

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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

  Mean, People, Funeral

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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

  Eight, Years, Trying

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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

  Armageddon, Excited, Coming Back

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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

  Writing, Winning, Thinking

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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

  Thinking, Hair, Looks

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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

  Thinking, Acting, Actors

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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

  Party, Guitar, Facts

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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

  Beach, Thinking, Venice

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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

  White, People, Together

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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

  Country, School, Evil

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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

  Girl, Song, Writing

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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

  Lying, Leaving, Noon

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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

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Goodbye, Song, Army

  “THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES: Check Out the Music Video for Billy Boyd’s ‘The Last Goodbye’” by Prtti Nemiroff, collider.com. November 21, 2014.

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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

  Thinking, Ethos, Bigger

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• My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.

  Billy Boyd

  Sleep, Habit, Whistling

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Fun, Lying, Night

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