Billy Boyd Quotes

You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment.

Sometimes during a show or a film, while you're shooting it, you'll think, "This is great, it's going to be fantastic, the script is incredible, and the actors are great, and everything is working out brilliantly." And then you see it, and you kind of go, "Oh god, it's not as good as I thought it was," and it doesn't get an audience to watch it. It only does a couple of festivals and then dies and whatever.

I don't really know how writing process happens, how these songs are arrived at. One of the things I like about the writing process is, I don't necessarily know where it's going, and even if I think I know where it's going, it'll turn out different. I find that exciting and rewarding.

Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations.

To work for months and months and months, you kind of spill blood and give your heart and soul to something, and then you just sort of let it out into the universe and hope that people like it. How you see it in your head is never how you see it on the screen, so it's almost like an out of body experience.

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.'

For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.

The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.

When you're a 4-6 football team, obviously you haven't played the way you wanted to or the way you think you could.

Expectations are dangerous. I recommend not having any, if only to avoid disappointment.

I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.

I think it's kind of strange when people talk about how hyped-up the movie is. It almost sets you up for a bigger fall.

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I'll do three versions of a song, then think, "Is the demo better?"

I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.

Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations

There's nothing like it, but it's not as good as you think it's going to be. . . . I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club's badge - but not a sausage.

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, just when I had got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I was expelled into the next and made to wonder again if any shapes hid in its shadows.

We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail.

I picked songs that I've been singing my whole life that stuck with me. I tried to pick stuff that was a variety. And I think the same way I always imagine that people are going to play the record at their house and I imagine them doing stuff with music on, like the way I am.