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
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
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. – Billy Boyd
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. – 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.’ – Billy Boyd
Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing. – 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. – Billy Boyd
I think I have a gift, but I haven’t really opened that gift yet and given it to myself. – 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. – 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. – Billy Boyd
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.’ – Billy Boyd
The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend. – 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. – Billy Boyd
