Haggard Quotes

(on concluding filming of LOTR:) "Frodo will look more haggard, but not as bad as Gollum. There is a massive transformation, but the journey should have a physical effect on him, which makes sense as I look a lot older than when I started filming. I was 18 then, and it`s appropriate that he looks older, too. And if I`ve done my job right, then you should empathize with him. When it came to the end, I was very emotional. I was heaving, I couldn`t breathe, and the last bits of the movie really wrecked me. They gave each actor his own farewell, when we were back there earlier this year. You`d go on to a sound stage and Peter (director Peter Jackson) would make a speech about each actor and then bring in their sword and a clapperboard. It was completely overwhelming. When it came time for me to give a speech, I was so gone I just couldn`t do it. I now have the ears, the feet, the sword, the Ring, and one of the maps of Middle-Earth. The whole thing has had a massive impact on us. I think Bill (Billy Boyd) and Dom (Dominic Monaghan) and I are thinking about buying a house here (in New Zealand), because we don`t want to lose our connection with the country. It makes most sense to go in on a place because we could use it like a timeshare and then holiday at different times or together. But we`re so lazy and completely hopeless at doing things, so it remains to be seen if it`ll ever happen." (December 11, 2003)

I`m very country-influenced, from quite young. Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, George Jones, so on. I heard those people, really, before I heard blues. Even Jim Reeves, Everly Brothers, and so on. Those kind of pop-country performers are very popular in England. Used to come along and play a lot on TV and their records would be around.

I think women look better with a little more weight on them. Being super thin makes you look haggard.

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he`s really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.

And I think it`s safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

We`re talking Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Willie Nelson all of those big acts, big artists from that era.