Billy Boyd famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

After I've been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland.
-- Billy Boyd

#Scotland #America #Homesick
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
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

#Thinking #Acting #Scripts
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
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
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
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
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
AÂ lot of ideas took us to dead ends or we found the tone wasnâ€™t just right. I think we discovered very quickly this wasnâ€™t just a song to end The Battle of the Five Armiesâ€”it was a song to say goodbye to Middle-earth.
-- Billy Boyd

#Goodbye #Song #Army
The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.
-- Billy Boyd

#Weekend #Hair #People
I think Scotland has some great stories.
-- Billy Boyd

#Thinking #Scotland #Stories
Hobbits are a lot like Scots. Itâ€™s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing
-- Billy Boyd

#Land #Scottish #Scots
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
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
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
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
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
My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
-- Billy Boyd

#Sleep #Habit #Whistling
I think I have a gift, but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.
-- Billy Boyd

#Thinking #Given
He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples â€¦ And Iâ€™ve never seen him so happy.
-- Billy Boyd

#Apples #Cameras #Throwing

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