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After I've been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland.

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

I think I have a gift, but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.

The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.

I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. I'd go out with a board under my arm and think, 'I can't do that in Cranhill.'

Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. It's not glam.

My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.

Then there are actors my age like Ethan Hawke, he's in 'Moby Dick,' I love his work. I've been lucky. Alfred Molina, he has real class.

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 think Scotland has some great stories.

Billy Boyd