invisibilly :: Billy Boyd

Billy Boyd

Wondering why there's so much blue? well i figured, this is a billy page, and his favorite color is blue, so all this blue is a tribute to the man himself.

Birthday: 8/28/68
Parents: William and Mary Boyd (both deceased)
Siblings: Margaret
Fav. Color: blue
Fav. Drink: malt whiskey
Fav. Movies: LoTR, Gregory's Girl, Indiana jones, and Notting Hill
Fav. Comedians: the Marx Brothers
Worst Habit: whistles in his sleep
Status: girlfriend
Skills: actor, singer, guitarist (i'm pretty sure he knows more instruments also), he and dom are writing a screenplay
~also he's very proud of his clean driving record :P

BEWARE OF TYPOS AND REPEATS
(if you find any could you tell me what it is and what paragraph(s) in my guestbook?)

SOME STUFF FROM THE MOVIE
(for all you coe people who don't feel like reading the whole script just to find the funny stuff)

~Merry: (running) I don't know why he's so upset! It's only a couple of carrots!
Pippin: And some cabbages. And those three bags of potatoes we lifted last week. And then the mushrooms the week before!
Merry: Yes, Pippin! My point is, he's clearly over-reacting!

~(Merry sits down, staring at his pint)
Pippin: What's that?
Merry: This my friend, is a pint.
Pippin: It comes in pints? (Merry murmurs in agreement) I'm getting one.
(Pippin gets up and heads for the bar)
Sam: You had a whole half already!

~Strider: Gentlemen, we do not stop until nightfall.
Pippin: What about breakfast?!
Strider: You've already had it.
Pippin: (matter-of-factly) We've had one, yes. What about second breakfast?
(Strider turns back around and walks past some trees)
Merry: (to Pippin) Don't think he knows about second breakfast, Pip.
Pippin: (nervously) What about elevenses? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper? He knows about them, doesn't he?
Merry: I wouldn't count on it.
(An apple flies from over a treetop into Merry's hands. Merry pats Pippin on the shoulder as another apple flies over and hits Pippin in the head.)
Merry: (annoyed) Pippin!

~Pippin and Merry: (sees Sam in the middle of all the important people. They emerge from behind the pillars and runs down) Wait! We are coming too!
Merry: You'd have to send us home tied up in a sack to stop us!
Pippin: Anyway you need people of intelligence on this sort of mission, quest... thing.
Merry: Well that rules you out Pip.
Elrond: Nine companions... So be it! You shall be the Fellowship of the Ring!
Pippin: Great! Where are we going?

~Pippin: Are we lost?
Merry: No.
Pippin: I think we are.
Sam: Shhh! Gandalf's thinking.
Pippin: Merry?
Merry: What?
Pippin: I'm hungry.

~Legolas: Lembas. Elvish waybread. One small bite is enough to fill the stomach of a grown man. (Merry and Pippin nod in agreement. Legolas leaves)
Merry: How many did you eat?
Pippin: Four.

~[this is the most genius thing pippin had done yet](Merry and Pippin are once again on top of Treebeard walking through Fangorn.)
Treebeard: I will leave you at the western boarders of the Forest. You can make your way north to your homeland from there.
Pippin: Wait! Stop! Stop! Turn around, turn around! Take us south.
Treebeard: South? But that would lead you past Isengard.
Pippin: Yes. Exactly. If we go south we can slip past Saruman unnoticed. The closer we are to danger, the farther we are from harm. It’s the last thing he’ll expect.
Treebeard: Hm. That doesn’t make sense to me, but then, you are very small. Perhaps you’re right. South it is then. Hold on little Shirelings. (turning around) I always like going south, somehow it feels like going down hill.
Merry: (to Pippin) Are you mad? We’ll be caught!
Pippin: (shakes his head) No we won’t. Not this time.

~Aragorn, Gandalf, Gimli, Legolas, etc. ride towards Isengard, and come upon Merry and Pippin sitting on a broken wall.)
Pippin: I feel like I'm back at the Green Dragon after a hard day's work.
Merry: Only, you've never done a hard day's work.
(Both laugh. A small crew of Helm's Deep survivors arrive. Pippin chortles like a loon.)
Merry: Welcome, my Lords, to Isengard!
Gimli: You young rascals! A merry hunt you've led us on, and now we find you, feasting and… smoking!
Pippin: We are sitting on a field of victory, enjoying a few well-earned comforts. The salted pork is particularly good.
Gimli: Salted pork?
Gandalf: (shakes head in disgust) Hobbits.

~Merry and Pippin are dancing and singing on a table.)
Merry and Pippin:
Oh you can search far and wide,
You can drink the whole town dry,
But you'll never find a beer so brown,
As the one we drink in our hometown.
You can keep your fancy ales,
You can drink them by the flagon,
But the only brew for the brave and true,
Comes from the Green Dragon!

~(pip singing to denethor, called "the steward of gondor" on the rotk soundtrack)
home is behind
the world ahead
and there are many paths to tread
through shadow
to the edge of night
until the stars are all alight
mist and shadow
cloud and shade
all shall fade
all shall fade

SOME FUNNY BILLY & DOM QUOTES
~He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples . . . And I’ve never seen him so happy.

~He [Michael Pellerin] will honestly say things like, “Remember the time you were in Twizel, and you had the bad pizza, and you had to sit in the toilet for three days?” And you eventually go, “Oh yeah, I remember!” . . . Not that that actually happened.

~Q:So, you’re the voice of the Seed?
(Laughing) Yeah.
Q:Did you ever think one day you’d be playing a seed?
(Laughing) No. It was fun. I just saw some of it actually and it's looking great.
Q:When you put your resume together, what’s it going to say – ‘Seed’?
(Laughing) No, it’ll say ‘Glen’.
Q:What was the process like? Did you just go into a studio, watch the scenes, and then provide the voice work?
Yeah, pretty much.
Q:Have you done voice work before?
I’d done a lot of radio.
Q:Do you have an accent for this role?
We shall wait and see (laughing). It was a lot of fun, actually.
Q:How much is your voice actually in the movie?
Well, you know, it’s a full movie…
Q:So the Seed is able to speak throughout the film?
Yes.
Q:Were you familiar with the “Child’s Play” franchise before doing this?
I missed them until “Bride of Chucky,” which I thought was really funny. It wasn't what I expected. I thought it was a real sort of horror-horror, but it's fairly tongue-in-cheek, so I kind of enjoyed it. This one is probably more in that route.
Q:Was the process like an animated movie where you’re isolated from the other actors or were the other actors around?
No, it was just me and then with the director, Don [Mancini].
Q:Did you go back a few times to do different lines, like you would for a regular animated movie?
No, we did it right through. And then I had to go back and change some stuff for one day, just for like a couple of hours.
Q:Do you have any publicity stills of you and the puppet?
No! I’ve never even seen the puppet. I’ve seen it on the screen, I just haven't seen the actual real thing. I haven't held it. I wonder if I get to keep it?

~Billy: This is the Roman
Dom: The Roman
Billy: The Ronan
Dom: The Ronan
Billy: (laughing) The ROHAN camp

~Billy: Where was that shot Dom?
Dom: (laughing) I'm not too sure...not too sure about that...um, New Zealand
Billy: There ya go
Dom: Definately New Zealand

~Dom: Some nice shots there with me and my helmet, our helmets were cursed Bill
Billy: Yea
Dom: It's cuz we gut tiny little, uh...
Billy: (in mock alarm) What?
Dom: Tiny little heads
Billy: Oh right
Dom: You jumped in too quick there
Billy: Well you left a pause

~Dom: I enjoy being approached by women I have to admit. I've very much embraced that and taken the bull by its horns.
Billy: I've seen you do that.
Dom: There was a bull, remember that night?
Billy: What a night that was!

~Billy: I remember about this, my, um abiding memory of that scene, is just as we get to the top of the tree there, because, they wanted ehh, to look as if we were moving along, they had these fans blowing, every time we got to the top of the tree, i'd always, swoosh my hair out of my eyes, pete would always say, stop swooshing your hair out of your eyes, and i couldn't stop doing it because this wig is really long, and i was just, every time i see this i feel quite proud that i didn't do a swish.

~Dom: I'll tell ya what Sean Astin was fat. would you like to make a comment on that Billy? or would you like to just uh, laugh silently?
Billy: No, I will leave that with you Dom.
Dom: I did say he *was* fat, he now has the body of a greek god...spearos...the horse god.....that's david wenham he plays faramir, he was affectinately termed as, daisy, wenham, ah, if you do see him in the street, and say hello daisy, and he will think that you know him
Billy: he will probably hate you for that, for the rest of your life
Dom: sorry daisy, i was affectionately known by the cast as King Dom
Billy: are you sure?
Dom: ya, King Dom
Billy: Dom
Dom: King Dom
(both talking at the same time) Billy: Dommy -Dom: Dom Dom Dom
Billy: Dom
Dom: no i wasn't
Billy: no you weren't no

~Dom: first thing that it's gonna say now...starring dommy!!!(in dissapointment)aahh
Billy: peter jackson...fran walsh philippa boyens stephen sinclair peter jackson
Dom: are you just gonna say uh, every name that comes up?
Billy: (laughing) j r r tolkien...barrie m osbourne had dinner with him last night fran walsh peter jackson, mark ordesky he was at dinner as well bob weinstein harvey weinstein, robert shaye, michael lynne
dom: dinner at bob shaye's that's next week
Billy: lovely andrew lesnie lovely guy, a.c.s., a cracking, sexy (something i couldn't understand) guy
Dom: that's the american cinema (something)
Billy: exactly
Dom: no, american camera...(cut off by billy)
Billy: rick porras, lovely guy, my very last scene on a movie, was directed by rich porras
Dom: i don't know who that joker was there (referring to elijah wood's name coming up), ian mckellen
Billy: a classy actor
Dom: cooks a fantastic egg foo yung, liv tyler
Billy: beutiful
Dom: gorgeous, viggo mortenson
Billy: mad as a fish
Dom: smells a little bit, seans astin, was fat now thin, cate blanchett, she's beu-ti-fuuullll
Billy: one of the most beutiful women in the world, john rhys-davies, one of the most beutiful men
Dom: tall, lives in the (something) bernard hill
(they ramble along at the same time, no idea what there saying, it was probably all lies anyway :P )
Dom: christopher lee
Billy: made more movies than anyone else
Dom: Billy boyd, Scot
Billy: thank you very much ladies and gentlemen Dominic Monaghan!!
Dom: incredible character, full of fish (uh, it sounded like he said fisch, as in german, which means fish, who woulda guessed eh? , no clue yet again...) orlando bloom, couldn't be more beutiful
Billy: hugo weaving, matrix
Dom: miranda otto, she's from australia, her dad's an actor
Billy: david wenham, also australian
Dom: daisy wenham, brad dourif, he won an oscar for (something)
Billy: andy serkis as gollum, movement wise
Dom: sean bean he was sharp
Billy: john noble, lovely lovely man, did a lot of stuff in the third movie
Dom: beutiful daughter
Billy: john hubbard thank you very much for casting me
Dom: liz mullane, she's lovely she's got long, (billy: beutiful woman)long dark hair, ngila dickson
Billy: ngila, treated us incredibly well
Dom: howard shore he makes music
Billy: didle-ee-dee dee deee richard taylor, oscar winner, more than once
Dom: ya, should say that, jim rygiel, he's a lovely man (billy: yes) makes a great chicken dish
(the words get small and cross the screen faster now)
Billy: gets diffucult now
(other people talk for awhile, john rhys-davies, christopher lee, miranda otto, people in general...)
Dom: if your still listening, congratulations, you've won a special prize, dinner with billy boyd, at the ivy in uhh, los angeles, california, (something) boulevard, 2 o'clock, be there, or uhh...
Billy: be hungry
Dom: too bad they already ate
Billy: ya i know you just put a little twist on it...because i didn't say be square, i said be hungry, because it's lunch, dun dun dun din dun doon doon dun, and another movie, have a cup of tea
Dom: (something)'s got something, something a bit more chilled out ya know, something not, not as over the top maybe, i don't know the lion king, the land before time, maybe annie maybe the champ if you want a cry
Billy: what about rocky? another classic boxing movie i think you'll find it
Dom: should we end now?
(the rest of the cast quickly take the opportunity and say bye)

~Q:A lotta down time on the set.How did u fill that up?
Dom:Surfing!
Billy:On the set?!?!(starts laughing that adorable Bily laughter)

~Q:Most memorable indignity...
Dom:Do u remember that guy who acidentally spilled your toilet on top of hiself?
Billy:Oh..yes..lovely fellow named Derek..he was cleaning...see u have this toilet in your trailer.And he turned the wrong nob and he...was covered in my piss.
Dom:Was it just piss?
Billy:Yes!Thank the good Lord!
Dom:Not very funny...
Billy:it's not funny at all....it's not dignified.I felt terrible!
(this one and the previous thanx to lady_kementari)

~We became incredibly close ... With this movie it's definitely different...Everyone is constantly in touch with everyone else. I saw Dom three weeks ago, I went to stay with him and Elijah in LA. I don't know if Peter Jackson is just an incredible judge of character and he knew we would get along, or if it was just luck, but I think from the day we got there, we knew it would be something special.

~Dom's an idiot. [laughs] No, Dom's great. We were probably... I was probably closest with Dom because, ya know we had so much stuff together.

~(on sitting up treebeard)So, you know, you're talking maybe a ten, twelve hour day up a tree. And ehhh... K-I-S-S-I-N-G.

~Billy: We have each other, too. Merry's the one who gets Pippin into trouble.

Dom: I did study Wushu for about eight weeks, which is really nothing. But I was able to kick over my head, which is good fun. That's a great thing about the job. Billy was doing Master and Commander and learning about knots and seamanship and when I went down to visit him in Mexico I woke up tied to my bed in half-sheep shanks and double weaves.
Billy: You usually have to pay for that kind of service.
Billy: I'd just like to take this moment to say how proud I am of you in these movies.
Dom: Mmmm.
Billy: As we sit down and watch them again.
Dom: I'd like to say how proud I am to be sitting next to you, Billy.
Billy: Ah, yeah. You won't be for long. I love you.
Dom: I love you.
Billy: Thanks.

~Dom: i heard they based Gollum's ears off mine
Billy: i heard that rumour
Dom: he's like a little puppy dog
Billy: aww he's so sweet.......but he's evil

~Billy: we dissapear, in the film for 50 minutes
Dom: and that is probably the, some of the darkest piece of cinema that you have ever seen, the 50 minutes
Billy: i think it's, it's actually a story telling device, that makes people get sadder, and sadder
Dom: just longing for pippin, and merry
Billy: yea they're thinking I'm missing something here (Billy starts to sound like he's crying) Idon't know what I'm missing
Dom: there's, there's a piece, of my life, a shard of my heart has been torn out
Billy: i don't know what it is
Dom: and i don't understand what it is
Billy: (sounding really sad and pathetic) sumthin...and then
Dom: and then, like, like
Billy: and there's, there's those two little buggers up a tree, ahhh that's better ey?
Dom: like a new sunrise
Billy: oh it's beutiful, like someone's just given you a cake
Dom: yea, or candy, cotton candy you might say
Billy: ohhhh cotton candy...or a big bag of popcorn
Dom: or pumpernickle, as they say in america
Billy: ahhh pumpernickle, rocky road
Dom: baby ruth, you just got us on chocolate bars now
Billy: aha, yea

~Well here's an interesting thing to talk about, you've got gandalf and aragorn and legolas and gimli and theoden and uh, eowyn, defending a castle, defending a fortress, trying as hard as they can to stop the flow, of uruk-hai, but merry and pippin, destry, saruman's castle, with the help of the ents, and uh, and then
Billy: ultimately, what was the most important, for ah the course of the water
Dom: and then you see the, the , the marauding uruk-hai that, that do escape from the people defending helms deep, are then killed by the forest, that we have managed to uh, get onto our side here, so, i think the two towers should have been called the adventures of merry and pippin
Billy: we shall rename it, becaue um, i think we spoke about, ahhh (silence, billy sighs) lost my train of thought, say something a minute
Dom: i really like eggs, in the morning, and bacon at night,
is that wrong?
Billy: no carry on carry on
Dom: when i was 7, i uh, used to eat ants (is cut off by billy)
Billy: got it!!we were talking aboutummm (sighs) lost it again
(both laugh)
Dom: that was quite great
Billy: wasn't it?
Dom: it was probably a lie billy
Billy: no wait a minute now, it was something about the t, ahh yes
Dom: here we go
Billy: we were talking about, merry and pippin's, story, in the film compared to in the book, and how maybe they make a more proactive fight to get the ents to do what they do, but i think anyone who's a fan of Tolkien, um , and who has read or studied the books will see that merry and pippin were very much involed in the rounsing of the ents, i don't think anyone would thing of them as just a erm, stand, er, by, standerbys?
(dom giggles, yes, giggles)
Billy: standbyees?
Dom :pass..pass..pass
Billy: passerbys?
Dom: bystanders!!
Billy: (laughing) bystanders, there's the words

~(about dom) I feel as though something's missing
when he's not there. You know like, when you lose a wart.(thanx to legolasrules1)

~(about the fight with the Balrog)
Dom: I suppose that Ian Mckellen really burned his nasal hair in this scene.
Billy: Yeah...luckily he had the prosthetic nose on, s'only thing that saved that, Dom.
Dom: Was he wearing prosthetic nasal hair as well?
Billy: Yeah...
Dom: That's good.

~(about Gollum)
Dom: It's great, he's got so much going on, Gollum. Sometimes he looks old, sometimes he looks young, sometimes he looks like a dog, sometimes he looks like a frog, sometimes he looks like a monkey, sometimes he looks like a bus...
Billy: ...uh, a bus?
Dom: Sometimes, a bus.

~Dom: I'll tell you what, Sean Astin sure was fat, wasn't he? (silence) Would you like to make a comment on that, Bill, or would you like to just, uh, laugh silently.
Billy: No, I will leave that with you, Dom.
Dom: I didn't say he was fat. He now has the body of a Greek god...Speros...the horse god.

~Dom: The hobbits are made of feathers!!
Billy: How can he carry a ring if he's made of feathers??

~Dom: Liv Tyler,
Billy: Very beautiful...
Dom: Very beautiful...
Billy: Viggo Mortensen.
Dom: Not quite as beautiful...
Billy: Not quite...
Dom: If I was going to choose between kissing one of them I would probably end up kissing Liv.
Billy: I would. Unless I had an itch. Then I'd kiss Viggo his beard could scratch it.
Dom: He's got quite good taste in cigars...if you wanted to try and get, like, a second hand smoke...

~(about the scene outside of the tower of Orthanc.)
Billy: We actually trained 4 million ants, dressed them all in Uruk-Hai uniforms, and got them all in march...which, you know is...amazing.
Dom: Well, I mean, incredible because ants have six legs...and they agreed to have four of their legs taken out for this movie.
Billy: Which, you know, shows the sort of passion and commitment...
Dom: And also their antennae...
Billy: Yes!
Dom: ...so their use to find food was taken out as well...

~Dominic Monaghan: I was out walking last night and some kid, some French kid passed Elijah and me and went, "l'anglais!" And I was kind of, what? And he went up to Elijah and said, "l'anglais!" And Elijah was, Huh? And then he said, "l'anglais!" to me and hit me.
Billy Boyd: Are you serious?
Dominic Monaghan: Yeah.
Billy Boyd: Honestly?
Dominic Monaghan: Yeah.
Billy Boyd: What does "l'anglais" mean?
Dominic Monaghan: English. It's that French-English thing. They hate us.
Billy Boyd: They like the Scots, though.
Dominic Monaghan: Yeah.
Billy Boyd: Battle of the Neville's Cross and all that.
Dominic Monaghan: He would have given you a cuddle.
Billy Boyd: Yeah.

~Q: You've been doing a week of interviews for this movie. What are people NOT asking you that you want to talk about?
Monaghan: How can you be such a great actor? I don't understand it.
Boyd: [to Monaghan] Is your talent CG?

~Since the first movie, tourism to New Zealand has gone up 20 percent...
Billy Boyd: 20 percent seems right. Someone told us that children reading novels has also gone up 20 percent. Also, Dom is 20 percent more handsome than he was when he started the movie.
Dominic Monaghan: You can see that, right? I think that's very apparent.
Billy Boyd: Yeah. I would say it's more 30, 35 percent.

~-Hello im Billy boyd sitting here on a chair in los Angeles

~Dom: Some people think Im called Mary...
Billy: Yes but do you have a little lamb?

~Dom: Billy's a great guy.
Billy: Dom's an idiot.

~(on duct tape stuck to billy's chest)Billy: He didn't ask me if he could stick it on, he just stuck it on.
Dom: Can I rip it off?
Billy: No, you can't rip it off.

~Billy: I just lost my train of thought. Keep talking Dom."
Dom: "I like eggs in the morning and bacon at night. Is that bad?
Billy: No keep going, keep going.
Dom: When I was seven I used to eat ants.
Billy: Wait, I remembered! I just lost it again. Thats amazing isn't it?

~Billy: Well I've known you know for about 4 or 5 years and they've been the happiest 4 or 5 years of my life.
Dom: (nods)I bring sunshine into people's hearts just though my talking and my mind work.
Billy: Yeah...

~Dom: You just have to embrace the fact that that is how it is going to be now. But we are quite disarming when people come over, especially if someone is like freaked out by the fact that they are meeting you. I spend as much time with them reminding them that we are just normal people trying to do a job and enjoying ourselves, and I think that is really important. Instead of going "Hey how are you?" I like to say, "Hey how are you doing, what?s your name?" and push it more onto them. You do get those kind of weird shaky people, I like them. And when you hold them they?re always kind of hot.
Billy: [laughs] Really?
B.L.: And there are people just obsessed with these movies.
Billy: I thought it would be boys, but it?s not. It?s mainly young girls that are obsessed with these movies. Much more girls than boys. (To Dominic) I would approach you if I were a little girl. I'd be all shaky and hot. I'd give you a lollipop.
Dom: It's kind of freaky. Because there is a part of your brain thinking, "How do I know know this person is meeting me because they want to meet me, or is it just because I'm from the films? Are they wondering ?How many steps to Elijah Wood from Dominic Monaghan?"

~Billy (about what happens to the hobbits in TTT):They go from being prisoners of war to like the very bosom of nature. It kindda helps them become hobbits again.
Dom:Mmmm...bosom!
Billy did i say bosom?
Dom:Yeah...

~Billy: In Return of the King, luckily, Tolkien wrote, that Pippin becomes a knight of Gondor, which means I get a right nice costume. We had to ask about, 6 or 7 of the girls in wardrobe and make-up. And it was unonomous that, mine, was the best costume, and also that I was the handsomest in it, and also the, sexiest.

~[on collaborating with Dominic Monaghan on a script:] I don't really think I'm a good writer. I think I'm too lazy to be a writer. There's always a Playstation or a movie or something to pull me away. Dom's better at writing and being that kind of guy. When I was filming in Mexico, we did a lot of it on tape and then Dom would write it later. Now we're working with a writer called David Gregg to finish it off and polish it up a bit, I guess. It's looking really good, and there are a lot of people interested in making it, and that's even better. So, hopefully, I'd love to work with Dom again and do a couple of different characters. I think it could be fun if we manage to keep a career going, to have this kind of two actors working together, but always playing different parts. It would be fun, I think.

~[on filming LOTR:] It was a tough shoot, you had to be there six days a week and it was absolutely exhausting. Peter Jackson has a really good bullshit monitor; if you're just acting that you're acting, he will know it, and he won't allow it. But that's great, because one of the main reasons that this film works is because, though it's a fantasy movie, it's so real. And although I'd do it all again tomorrow, by the end we were absolutely exhausted. I remember one time after doing a scene, an emotional scene, I was exhausted, having a headache and all, and coming in the next day, and Pete said, 'Okay, get yourself back to where you were yesterday', and I just thought that I could do anything but work myself up to that emotional peak again.

~[teasing a journalist who asked about the hobbits' popularity in the gay community:] We had to learn how to canoe. I don't know why, because we don't do it in the movie, but it was part of our training. And there was a group shower. All the Americans, though, they were quite scared. Elijah and Sean just, like, didn't have a shower and left, but me, Orlando and Dominic, in our British way, all got involved in showers. But it was just a shower.

~[on cast camraderie during shooting The Lord of the Rings":] "There was a lot of pranking, but that was more Dom (Dominic Monaghan) and Viggo (Viggo Mortensen). With Viggo, they were normally quite violent, aggressive ones. You would see Sean Bean walking across to his caravan, and then see this figure of Viggo running across the plains and rugby tackling him. Dom and Viggo were attacking each other's trailers for quite a while, redecorating inside and out with whatever they got their hands on. It was a very happy set, a very constructive set.

~[on the bond between the four hobbit-actors:] We're really good friends. We spent last New Year together. Sean's married and has children, so he has other things that he has to do, but me, Dom, and Elijah all spent New Year in the borders of Scotland and England.

~[on his favorite cartoon character] Daffy Duck, because he's funny and sarcastic.

~My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.

~(on hearing about playing pippin)Billy Boyd: I was working on a new script in a theater in Edinburgh and I got a message to call my agent. She said, “Guess who’s playing Pippin!” I said, “Who, is it Michael J. Fox?” She told me to go lie down.

~Billy: We could sit in Treebeard’s hands, but they just put bicycle saddles on these hands so you can’t put your feet on anything. So you’re just hanging on this bicycle seat, and it is always at weird angles, so it was crushing your boys for 15 hours a day. Imagine that, if you will.

~Q : There's a rumour that Orlando Bloom is the most popular sexy lead character. What do you think ?
Billy Boyd : That's actually untrue. I don't know where you get that. That's a statistic you've made up.
Q : So you're saying the hobbits are sexier?
Dominic Monaghan : The hobbits are the heart of the movie - they're the emotional core for goodness sake!
Billy Boyd : And we're handsome for God's sake. [points to Dominic] Look how pretty this man is!
Dominic Monaghan : I mean Orlando Bloom - what are you talking about? They [the hobbits] are what the audience love, they're what the people really, really hang onto. They're the last character the audience want to die ! This Legolas guy - I hope he gets killed by an arrow in the next movie. Vroom... right through this eye !
Billy Boyd : It's all make up anyway.
Dominic Monaghan : Yeah you should see him when he's got his wig off. It's disgusting. Big open weeping warts on the top of his head.
Bily Boyd : Covered in warts.
Dominic Monaghan : Smells of elderberries.
Billy Boyd : Oh, he smells!
Dominic Monaghan : He can't defend himself [laughs] Hi Orli
Billy Boyd : Hi Orlando !
Dominic Monaghan : How you doing mate ?

~Dom: In terms of moaning about having the feet put on and not seeing the feet in the film, Sean Astin was the worst. He actually kept a log of the amount of time our feet weren’t used, and he brought it up with Peter regularly.

~About what is this screenplay? Do you intend to direct as well?
DM: No, we won't direct. This movie is just a way for us to act. The story is about two guys from the United Kingdom who open a scuba diving school in Miami and got themselves in a lot of trouble. This all started because we had to stay up there for 11 hours a day without anything to do! And we've learned to dive there in New Zealand and we had some ridiculous experiences because we couldn’t communicate down the water. Once we were training in a pool and I was doing the basic signals like "Ok?" (thumb up), "do you wanna go up?" (pointing the thumb up), etc. And Billy made me this gesture (joining the 2 index fingers). I thought he wanted me to sit on his finger!!! (laughs)
BB: I only wanted him to lean his finger on mine, to show him how the sense of depth is different under the water!!
DM: And I told him "Noooooooooo!!!!" and we started laughing and we had to got up. Then we realized that there are a lot of situations that you have to talk but it's impossible and you have to manage in some other way. The script is pretty funny.
BB: It's f***** great!! Dom likes to say that it's funnier than a penguin playing banjo!

~What is the biggest misconception of you as an actor?
Probably that I'm a really nice guy, but I'm really the devil. [laughs]

~Let me go ahead and ask you the question that Billy wanted us to ask you. He’d like to know your 18 favourite things about him.
My 18 favourite things? Okay. #1 – The space between his nose and his lip. I think it’s called the filtrum. That’s f-i-l-t-r-u-m. Billy’s got a fantastic filtrum. You know how babies have that very cute, sweet little filtrum? Billy’s got the exact same thing! So that would be my #1 favourite thing about Billy (aside) He’s telling me now what to say now, but I’m not going to!
#2 – Very small, dainty hands and feet, which makes him very dexterous; anything that he does with his hands is always very precise. #3 – Quite big biceps for such a small man. Big strong arms. #4 – Funny- #5 – His hair. There’s something very interesting with his hair. When he’s in a good mood, he spikes it all up, so he looks like a complete lunatic. #6 – His voice…very good. #7 He’s got quite enchanting eyes. You know how it is with the eclipse? If you keep looking at it for a certain amount of time, you can’t stop – you have to keep looking at it. That’s like Billy’s eyes – if you look at them for more than 20 or 30 seconds, then you’re hooked. There have been a couple of times in bars where I’ve had to actually pull girls away, so they’d stop looking at his eyes…[otherwise] you’ll be there for the rest of your life! #8 – I really liked the smell of his car when we were in New Zealand, because we used to keep our surfboards in there, and his car just absolutely reeked of rotting wetsuits and sand and protein shakes. Billy didn’t care about that. #9 – He got me into a couple of bands I really liked. #10 – Choice of movies. He’s got a very good taste in films. #11 – Oh, here’s another good thing about Billy: If you’re ever in a restaurant where you’ve never been before, Billy will always pick the restaurants main meal – the one that they do the best. No matter what it is, he’ll always go for it. #12 – Fear of heights. Billy’s got a great fear of heights that he just doesn’t question. I’m very scared of heights too, and when we went to this bungee jump, I said to him,” We’re going to conquer our fear of heights. Come on, that’s what we’ll do. We’ll do a bungee jump, and then you can always say you did it.” And Billy was like, “ No. I’m afraid of heights, and that’s what I’m sticking to.” I like that! #13 – Sleeps like a dormouse at any opportunity. If Billy’s given 25 minutes to sleep, he’ll do it. Whereas if I’m given 25 minutes to sleep, I’ll run off and get a drink, go and call someone, play with my Playstation…do 50 million things at the same time and get frustrated. #14 – Good surfer, He’s my main surfing buddy, which is always a good thing. He’s also my scuba-diving buddy and my kayaking and canoeing partner. So we have a great relationship both in and out of the water. #15 – Always shares his food. When we’re in a restaurant, Billy will always say, “ Try this! #16 – We enjoy drinking pretty much the same amount, which is nice. If you’re going to spend a year and a half with someone, it’s good if you drink on the same level! Billy and I can keep up with each other, which is essential. #17 – I love the fact that he chose 17 favourite things because he knew I could only think of 16!
Actually, it’s 18.
Oh really. (Boyd is heard giggling loudly) my 18th one is…let me think. Oh – the fact that he always leaves his sunglasses everywhere. While I’ve been with him, he’s probably lost about seven or eight pairs. In New Zealand, he’d just leave them on café tables. What I used to do is just pick them up automatically, and a couple of hours later, he’d say, “ Oh, ****!” I left my sunglasses!” I’d say, “ No, Billy…here you go! That was my job: picking up sunglasses.

~Dom: i'm probably going to have a cup of coffee & then lunch
billy: chicken? lovely

~Q: you guys like snoop dogg?
dom: ya, i like snoopy dogg
Q: you guys live in L.A.?
billy: i don't, i live in scotland, so next to my bed i only have a light so i can read
dom: i live in hollywood
billy: sometimes a sandwich if i'm hungry

~Q: had being a hobbit helped or hurt you dating life?
dom: i never had a problem with my dating life
billy: women like you?
dom: what is that about?
billy: i don't know!!!

~Q: well, you've been hanging around together for the last three years, what becomes of that sort of relationship?
dom: love. deep-seated love. though not on a sexual basis

~dom: i'm going to buy a house in new zealand and end up bringing my kids up there
Q: really?
dom: i don't have kids yet, though
billy: well, you should do
dom: i will do
billy: your going to have to start working on that
dom: i will
billy: good

~Did you keep anything from the set?
dom: i have a few feet, & a ring, & some ears. a few things, the origional script & a few books that everyone signed
billy: i have nothing
Q: no?
billy: no, i'm probably the laziest man in the world. so i wouldn't go around getting everyone's signature for the book. i lost my script. i'm just...i never think ahead with these things, you know? i end up back at home and i think, you know, i did that for a year and a half, what have i got? a tattoo
dom: nothing!!!
billy: a tattoo!!!
dom: i signed his ass
Q: you could get dom to give you some feet
billy: ya
dom: no, i'm not giving him anything
billy: come on
dom: no
billy: come on
dom: they wouldn't fit you anyway, they're my feet
billy: well, steal my feet next time
dom: ok
billy: thanks

~billy: never get kicked by a horse!!!
dom: didn't you get kicked?
billy: ya, & it was very, very painful. i got kicked in the bum

~Q: it's so big,(no, not billy's bum, the whole aspect of lotr) it could have terrified you out of your wits!!!
billy: that's true!!!in fact, the the 1st 3 months , i couldn't think about it, every time i did i'd pass out!!!
dom: fall down, flat on his face, he would!!!
billy: one time in a cactus!!!
dom: it was like an itchy and scratchy cartoon on the simpsons!!!

~Billy:I just think of myself as a friend. A good friend. A good friend who might camp in your garden! (Regarding Sean Astin's comment about Billy being a stalker)

~(wut sum1 wrote down from when they saw billy)and when he said he was not feeling well, a string of "awwww"s. Even when he walked away from the mike so we could watch the films, he coughed and got more "aww..."s. Poor Billy. He didn't sound all that sick.-While one of his publicists is at the mike, Billy pretends to float like he had in his film.

~Qu- The whole fellowship had gotten a tatoo. Where is your fellowship tatoo?
Ans- I actually got it on my right ankle. In retrospect, it wasn't the smartest decision I made, since when they did it, I still had two weeks of acting in hobbit feet left, and glue over a raw wound is not a pleasant experience!
Qu- Do you know how to read moon dwarf runes?
Ans- What? Well, I don't think I can because I have no idea what those are.
Qu- During the films, I heard that each person was paired with another actor. Who did you share with, and how did that affect you throughout the filming?
Ans- Really? I hadn't heard that. If its true, I guess I must have been alone then
publicist- *joking* He shared with Liv Tyler
Billy- oh yes, It was with Liv Tyler and Cate Blanchett.
Qu- Have you ever seen the Canadian film FUBAR?
Ans- *laughes* "Um, no. But I've heard its great and I will watch it.
Qu- I was wondering how the movie you were making with Dom is going.
Ans- Oh, its hell. Dom is TERRIBLE to work with in writing it, it is just TORTURE, but the script is so good that it is worth it. The only reason I'm sticking with it is because I know it will be amazing. But spending time with that man is making me sick. No, its going great. The script is almost finished, and we may be able to start filming it soon.