Billy Boyd Quotes
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.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'
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They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
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If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
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The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.
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Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.
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Sometimes, I don't notice I'm singing.
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I think there's so much feeling among young girls where they feel like they have to be this perfect thing - and they don't. Perfect people don't exist. Sometimes people need to be told it.
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My family suffered very major losses during the Second World War, that's true. In my father's family, there were five brothers. I think four of them died. On my mother's side the picture was pretty much the same. Russia has suffered great losses. And of course we can't forget that.
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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.
