Billy Boyd
Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It's all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.
The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.
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.'
I think Scotland has some great stories.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
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.
After I've been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland.
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.Collection: Holiday
Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.Collection: Land
Sometimes the songs you think will be best don't turn out to be best.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Character
I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.Collection: Art
He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.Collection: Apples
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.Collection: Armageddon
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.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: 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.Collection: White
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Party
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.Collection: Beach
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.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Lying
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.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Goodbye
I think I have a gift... but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Fun
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.Collection: Stories