Random:
"I think of myself as a friend. A good friend. A good friend who might camp in your garden!"-Sean Astin had been calling him a stalker...
"I need a hug!"
"Please, please... would some woman come and kiss me?" from an SMTV interview... I'll volunteer!"
"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, talking about his flight to New Zealand with Orlando Bloom.
"Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It's all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing."
On His Co-stars:
Dom, "This is my second breakfast." Billy, "You see what he's done there. See what he's done?" (we see the scene from FOTR) "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!"
"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."
"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."
"That's the thing about Elijah. He's got the biggest eyes you've ever seen, but they don't work."
Movies:
"It comes in pints?"-FOTR
"What about second breakfast?"-FOTR
"Hey Ho! to the bottle I go, to heal my heart and to drown my woe. Rain may fall and wind may blow and there will be many miles to go. Sing to the sound of the pouring rain with words that are heard from hill to plain, better than rain or rippling brook is a mug of beer inside this Took!" -FOTR EE
