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.
Strangely enough, the first time I tried to read [The Lord of the Rings] 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.
Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.
Sometimes the songs you think will be best don't turn out to be best.
For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they're trying to tell.
I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.
He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.
After I've been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland.
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.
But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.
I'm so pleased that I'm coming back to Armageddon, just to meet everyone. I'm very excited about doing it, I've heard great things about Armageddon and I'm just really excited to get there.
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 was probably about fourteen I think, and probably like every boy who's fourteen that writes a song, it was about a girl. It was about a girl who I really liked, but she didn't like me as much as I liked her. I think most guys go through that.
I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense.
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.
I think I have a gift... but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.
I think the ears are a strange look for me. Quite big. But I loved the hair down to my shoulders. It felt right. I'm thinking of letting my hair go.
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.
I think Scotland has some great stories.
The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.
I wasn't into Tolkien at school really. But the story is timeless, the themes that it touches on are contained in cultures all around the world. The innocent on a quest, the pretender, an inanimate object that holds evil - it's really strange that these themes are there in so many different countries' folklore.
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.
I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. Id go out with a board under my arm and think, I cant do that in Cranhill.
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'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.
