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Billy Boyd

Billy Boyd Biography

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Billy Boyd, born on August 28, 1968, is a British actor who gained widespread recognition for his role as Peregrin Took in 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy. Boyd's acting career began on stage and gradually expanded into film and television.

Billy Boyd, born on August 28, 1968, is a British actor who gained widespread recognition for his role as Peregrin Took in 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy. Boyd's acting career began on stage and gradually expanded into film and television.

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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.”

Thinking Looks Bigs Felt Strange Hair Ears Quitting Shoulders

Author:Billy Boyd

“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.”

Thinking Ideas Ends Earth Song Found Five Middle Battle Army Tone Goodbye Saying Goodbye Dead Ends Middle Earth

Author:Billy Boyd

“He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.”

Behinds Standing Cameras Apples Throwing

Author:Billy Boyd

“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.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Enough Lord First Time Rings Things To Do Holiday Pool Florida Pippin

Author:Billy Boyd

“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.”

Thinking Might Actors Acting Painting Very Good Subjective Good Actors Great Actors

Author:Billy Boyd

“I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.”

Thinking Art Listening Art Is Subjective

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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.”

Trying Character Stories Actors Emotion Truthful Great Actors

Author:Billy Boyd

“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.”

People Different Together Courses White Influence Band Hopefully Elbows Lennon

Author:Billy Boyd

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

Thinking Sometimes Song Turns

Author:Billy Boyd

“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.”

Thinking Writing Guy Song Girl Boys Like Me Fourteen

Author:Billy Boyd

“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.”

Thinking Writing Winning Prize Nobel Nobel Peace Prize

Author:Billy Boyd

“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.”

Heard Excited Great Things Coming Back Armageddon

Author:Billy Boyd

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

America Scotland Homesick

Author:Billy Boyd

“Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.”

Enjoy Land Scottish Scots

Author:Billy Boyd

“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.”

World Different Country Stories School Culture Evil Objects Strange Innocent Around The World Theme Quests Timeless Folklore Different Countries Inanimate Objects Pretender

Author:Billy Boyd

“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.”

Thinking Arms Beach Boards Surfing Cant Venice Venice Beach

Author:Billy Boyd

“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.”

Ifs Facts Wanted Party Guitar

Author:Billy Boyd

“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.”

Lying Hours Sun Four Months Meetings Leaving Traffic Noon Glam

Author:Billy Boyd

“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.”

Thinking Knows Trying Kind I Can Play Character Facts Jobs Lord Rings Do You Know Main Characters Pippin

Author:Billy Boyd

“My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.”

Sleep Worst Habit Whistling

Author:Billy Boyd

“I think I have a gift... but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.”

Thinking Given Havens

Author:Billy Boyd

“I think Scotland has some great stories.”

Thinking Stories Scotland

Author:Billy Boyd

“The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.”

People World Hair Clubs Weekend Associates

Author:Billy Boyd

“But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.”

Trying Years Six Seven Incredibles Eight Filmmaker

Author:Billy Boyd

“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.”

Thinking Acting Direct Scripts

Author:Billy Boyd

“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.”

Ifs Said Film Lying Night Fun Opening Dip

Author:Billy Boyd

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Want Years Five Five Years Be You Make You Happy

Author:Billy Boyd

“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.”

Thinking Enjoy Bigger Ethos

Author:Billy Boyd

“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.”

People Looks Mean Made Film Four Scared Funeral Lots Of Money Again And Again Our Wedding

Author:Billy Boyd

About the Author

Born: August 28, 1968
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 29

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