Billy Boyd Net Worth

Billy Boyd's Quotes

• 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, what else would you rather do, you know? I can't actually think of another job that I'd rather do.
• Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It's all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.
• "I realised that it was just about Pippin and some other people!" After reading 'Lord of the Rings' for the first time.
• On being asked if he could relate to his character, Pippin: "Strangely enough, the first time I tried to read the book 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."
• [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. [December 11, 2003]

Interesting Facts about Billy Boyd

1. Attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama and graduated with a Diploma in Dramatic Arts.
2. Sister: Margaret
3. Parents: William and Mary (deceased)
4. He's a talented singer; a strong tenor / light baritone voice, F# to A above middle C over 2 octaves. He also plays the guitar, the bass, and the drums.
5. 12/1/2002: Topped list of top 100 Most Eligible Men in Scotland
6. Boyd and his sister were raised by their grandmother after the death of their parents.
7. Likes porridge for breakfast.
8. Wears a kilt on some formal occasions.
9. Won a role as an astronaut by doing the best impression of weightlessness while sitting in a chair.
10. Wrote and sang a song called 'The Steward of Gondor' in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. He wanted it to sound Scottish, somber and very different than the kind of thing that Pippin and Merry were singing at Edoras earlier in the movie.
11. Is an avid surfer, and does so as often as possible.
12. Began working with Dominic Monaghan on a script about two English lads who open a scuba diving school in Miami. "We started writing when we were stuck up Treebeard during the second movie [The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)]," Boyd told a reporter for the Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne, Australia) [December 14, 2003].
13. His favorite film is Bill Forsyth's 1981 comedy 'Gregory's Girl'.
14. His favorite cartoon character is Daffy Duck
15. In The Lord of the Rings, according to the book, Pippin is 28 years old, which makes him the youngest of the four lead hobbits. However, Boyd is actually the oldest of the four hobbit actors.
16. He was the teens choice for host of the European MTV awards in 2002.
17. During college, he worked in a pizza hut, a bar and a comedy club to make ends meet.
18. When he was first cast in The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson asked him to tone down his Scottish accent, but found that the funny parts just weren't as funny without it, so Boyd was allowed to use his regular Scottish accent. Jackson and the writers then consulted The Hobbit. Bilbo Baggins's mother was a Took, and one of their ancestors had, according to the book, invented the game of golf. Since golf is of Scottish origin, they reasoned that Tolkien must have, therefore, intended for the Tooks to be Scottish.
19. Hates cinnamon
20. Has a home in Glasgow, Scotland, but sometimes stays in Los Angeles, CA.