"Growing up, I just wanted to travel through time or be a Jedi. That's why I wanted to be an actor! I didn't want to explore anything or make anyone look inside themselves. I just wanted to have a hover board."

"There's no life. There's nothing. I live in a pond. I've been doing a little bit of brick laying and driving a gritter for the council. It's been good fun over the past year or so." (about life after Lord of the Rings)

"I need a hug!"

"And it was my birthday as well. I'd just turned 30 that day. So we had champagne on the flight. And when we got to L.A., because of the time difference, it was my birthday again, so we had more champagne." (Billy about his flight to New Zealand with Orli)

"Yes, my mind is pickled." (When he's blitzed that is, hence the nickname "Pickle")

"I just hope they don't miss Pete. I think it really would be a travesty if he's not seen as an incredible director. And I think The Return of the King is probably the best screenplay I've ever read. It's incredible. It's so emotional." (The Academy Awards)

"The Oscars, to be very technical about it, had been moved to a new location this year that was a smaller location and had less seats. So basically the only people who were allowed were people who were nominated - Ian McKellen, Pete Jackson, etc. And Pete took Elijah as a guest, which I thought was great... The rest of us knew we weren't going." (The truth about the 2002 Academy Awards)

"Pete wasn't there but he came on to someone's cell phone and so we all spoke to him from the table. And I was just pretending that I was trying to kiss Nicole Kidman and he was like, 'Well, you should.' And I said, 'Well, I can't reach!' It was a fun night. Really good." (Screen Actors' Guild Awards)

"Fuck Empire! You had to give Best Debut to Mr. Cheekbones, didn't ya?!" (His co-star Orlando Bloom won that one)

Dom, "This is my second breakfast." Billy, "You see what he's done there. See what he's done?" [cut to second breakfast conversation between Pippin and Aragorn from Fellowship] "He's brought life and the movie, together. Like here we have coomera and bacon, together. Me and Dom, we're out, together, [laughs] but not like that!"

"That's the thing about Elijah. He's got the biggest eyes you've ever seen, but they don't work."

"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."

"Dom's an idiot."

"I loved 'The Goonies,' and 'The Ice Storm' for Elijah. One time coming back to New Zealand from England, I was in a hotel and jet-lagged and forgot I'd asked Sean to get me a copy of 'Rudy' because I never saw it. And I was in tears at four in the morning! I called him Rudy for months after that."

"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)

"I liked Peter Jackson the moment I met him," he recalls. "He was just so laid back. We were in a casting agent's office and there was Peter - dressed, as usual, in shorts and without shoes - sitting on a sofa with Fran Walsh. They were both so relaxed with me that it was easy to be relaxed with them and to be open about what I wanted to bring to the character of Pippin."

Working as a bookbinder, "I had put covers on 'The Lord of the Rings,' but I never read it. It was just too big. I finally read it when I knew I was playing Pippin and realized that really it is all about Pippin and some other people!"

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

"Pippin is an individual, he has a lot of spontaneity. He also sees life from a slightly different angle than most people."

"Although Pippin has never left The Shire, he is a Took and comes from a family that is known for being a bit adventurous and likely to fly off the handle and do things that other hobbits would consider to be not quite hobbit-like. What's more, Pippin does have a habit of doing the wrong things at the wrong time! Although, to be fair, as the story develops, we see Pippin going through all kinds of experiences and becoming more mature."

"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." (when asked if he could relate to his character, Pippin)

"My worst habit is whistling while I sleep."

"It was a horrible experience. I even feared for my life in one scene. The Orcs have costumes made of spikes and they were throwing me and Dom around. I was close to getting speared by an Orc and was thinking to myself ... 'that would be a strange way to go'. But I was lucky. In the first film I was bitten on the backside by a horse, but this time I managed to remain unscathed."

"He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples... And I've never seen him so happy."

"I can't think of a actual moment that I thought 'I'm definitely gonna be an actor from now on' but I remember being in eh guidance meetings which you used to have a school when they'd ask you what do you wanna be and I said an actor and the guidance teacher said well I- I- I wouldn't tell anyone else that."

"...We used to have a thing on set, that whenever Elijah -you know he wears (the Ring) around his neck?- whenever it would come out of his costume, between shots and that, myself and Dom would sneak up on him and try to get it off him...That was good fun."

"Peter doesn't know this... but I broke my finger surfing !"

"One memory that jumps out at me is one when I locked Dom in a cupboard, that you should look at, because he didn't bring me the right flavor of Haagen-Dazs. So he was punished."

"So we stole Orlando's camera, and there is a tape of that week, of me and Dom sharing a house together, which must make it onto a DVD at sometime !"

Billy : "I've got a girlfriend now, so... I don't even notice women now. You know. I just see people. I don't see women."
Dom : "Yes, we've been together now three and a half years. "

Dom : "We did everything together. We even showered together !"
Billy : "Oh ! Why did you have to go and tell them that ? We did once, but I try to keep it in the back of my mind. "

Billy : "Well, I've known you now for like four or five years... and they've been the happiest years of my life."
Dom : "I bring sunshine into people's hearts. Just with my talking... And my mind-work." (Billy cracks up)

Dom : "There'd be times when someone would get tired and lose their temper, but we became such good friends that we got to know when someone was at breaking-point and whether they needed a night out or just a good night's sleep, whether they needed to be left alone or given a hug-"
Billy : "I need a hug !"
Dom : "Not now !"

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