Quotes from Billy Boyd

I think Scotland has some great stories.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.'