Billy Boyd
Billy Boyd
Billy Boydis a Scottish actor and singer. He played Peregrin "Pippin" Took in Peter Jackson's epic film trilogy The Lord of the Rings, Barret Bonden in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, and Glen in Seed of Chucky...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth28 August 1968
CityGlasgow, Scotland
song thinking sometimes
Sometimes the songs you think will be best don't turn out to be best.
thinking scotland stories
I think Scotland has some great stories.
thinking given havens
I think I have a gift, but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.
thinking ethos bigger
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.
art thinking listening
I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.
thinking acting might
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.
beach thinking venice
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.
writing winning thinking
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 acting scripts
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.
characters job main rather trying
To play one of the main characters in it, it's not like 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.
white people together
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.
character trying stories
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.
years eight trying
But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.
sleep habit whistling
My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.