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89 sentences about actor, model, poet, playwright and artist, Boyd Holbrook. 
  1. Boyd was born in Prestonsburg, Kentucky on September 1st, 1981.
  2. Boyd threw a fit and had to go home, on his first day at school.
  3. Boyd reckons his best subject at senior school was science. 
  4. Boyd currently lives in Brooklyn.
  5. Boyd has a part in the new Gus Van Sant film, Milk, which is about the San Francisco gay rights activist Harvey Milk, who was assassinated in 1978. 
  6. Boyd is a talented artist, who recently exhibited Iscariot - a life-size sculpture of Jesus, taking a bubble bath, under a palm tree - at the RARE gallery in New York. 
  7. Boyd ended up burning the first poem he ever wrote, so now we'll never know what it was like....
  8. Boyd just replies 'nope', when asked who his lover is. 
  9. Boyd is 6 feet and 1 inch tall, has a 31-inch waist, and takes a US shoe size of 11. 
  10. Boyd thinks it is a trick question when asked to name his favourite politician. 
  11. Boyd states, 'She knows who she is', when asked who he would like his lover to be.
  12. Boyd's idols are the quietly spoken radio and TV presenter Bob Harris and a famous tattooed lady from last century named Edith Burchett. 
  13. Boyd has appeared as a model in advertisements and catalogues for all manner of designers and brands, such as Jean Paul Gaultier, GAP, Zara, Barneys, Dior Homme and Versus, to name a few. 
  14. Boyd once had a job showering elephants at the zoo - he reckons this was both his best, and his worst job ever.
  15. Boyd's enemy is fear, along with fear's best buddy, guilt. 
  16. Boyd's favourite novel is The Ginger Man by critically acclaimed Irish-American author James Patrick Donleavy. 
  17. Boyd has written a screenplay called Uncle Sam, which Gus Van Sant was apparently very impressed by.
  18. Boyd confirms the most recent time he cried was last Wednesday, when he was in the shower.
  19. Boyd is kept awake at night, he reveals, by the ice-cream man...
  20. Boyd has been studying acting at the William Esper Studio in Manhattan for the past two and a half years.
  21. Boyd has graced the catwalks for designers including Vivienne Westwood, Marc Jacobs, Dolce & Gabbana, Alexander McQueen and Gucci.
  22. Boyd is not sure if he goes red when he is embarrassed - after all, he can't see his own face when that happens, can he?
  23. Boyd appears to harbour vampire-like tendencies, as his favourite taste and smell is that of blood.
  24. Boyd loves the Bob Dylan song Meet Me In The Morning from his 1975 album Blood On The Tracks.
  25. Boyd clearly enjoys the cinematic efforts of Tom Cruise - as two of his favourite films are, he claims, Cocktail and Top Gun.
  26. Boyd likes the poetic works of Dylan Thomas. 
  27. Boyd is fond of the building he grew up in.
  28. Boyd prefers trees to flowers.
  29. Boyd's earliest childhood memory is a bird sitting on his head - which, as he points out, is supposed to be good luck, but then, really, what else can you say to someone unfortunate enough to have a bird sitting on their head?
  30. Boyd does not opt for obvious choices when it comes to identifying his preferred sandwich filling - instead opting for 'knuckles'.
  31. Boyd declines to answer when asked about his worst habit. 
  32. Boyd declines to answer when asked about his parents.
  33. Boyd declines to answer when asked about his best personality trait.
  34. Boyd declines to answer when asked about his biggest regret so far. 
  35. Boyd declines to answer when asked if he ever stole anything from a shop.
  36. Boyd declines to answer when asked if he believes in God.
  37. Boyd declines to answer when asked if he is ticklish.
  38. Boyd declines to answer when asked what makes him most afraid.
  39. Boyd declines to answer when asked what he usually has for breakfast.
  40. Boyd declines to answer when asked what he'd like to be doing in ten years' time from now.
  41. Boyd's eyes are blue.
  42. Boyd would hang out with me, he insists, if he could be invisible for the day.
  43. Boyd does not live alone but does not expand on this further.
  44. Boyd invites me to, 'Come find out', when probed about how hairy he is.
  45. Boyd retorts, 'Would you ask Jesus that question?' when asked to confirm how vain he is on a scale of one to ten.
  46. Boyd's favourite part of his body is his moustache.
  47. Boyd's least favourite part of his body is also his moustache.
  48. Boyd does not know what a Lonely Hearts advertisement is.
  49. Boyd cites the website that he most looks at is that of the fine jewellery designer for men and women philippaholland.co.uk
  50. Boyd's most recently sent email was, basically, about nonsense.
  51. Boyd's favourite TV programme is the game show, Jeopardy.
  52. Boyd's favourite work of art is the golden-hued, much-reproduced painting, The Kiss, by Gustav Klimt.
  53. Boyd is pretty eco-friendly, as the environment is not in the best shape.
  54. Boyd would prefer to die like a man at high noon to a better gunslinger.
  55. Boyd's most embarrassing modelling job was, probably, he thinks, something in public and involving fur.
  56. Boyd's single biggest achievement in life was getting his funds in order, selling the jag and buying a yacht - though quite possibly this is not really the case at all.
  57. Boyd felt privileged to play a role in Milk, as it was a huge learning experience, and - after having studied acting for a number of years and being in various plays - jumping into the film was the perfect way to get his feet wet.
  58. Boyd had first seen a documentary about Harvey Milk years ago, but watched it again - and researched the subject more and more - before starting work on Milk.
  59. Boyd thinks Gus Van Sant is great to be around and great at what he does.
  60. Boyd's favourite item of clothing is socks.
  61. Boyd just thinks it's impossible to identify his favourite colour.
  62. Boyd prefers to take a bath than a shower.
  63. Boyd's most recent holiday was in St Lucia with his friend Jude last New Year's Eve.
  64. Boyd was last sick on February 13, at 11.32 p.m - on a rooftop, overlooking a park that he had been to earlier with friends, while eating biscuits and drinking Hurricanes.
  65. Boyd would try to save his photographs if his house was on fire.
  66. Boyd believes the most challenging acting role he has undertaken so far was a character from World War Two - with an addiction to morphine, who was on the verge of having his own family, while having to deal with a father who had deserted him.
  67. Boyd meditates in order to relax.
  68. Boyd last lost his temper due to a mix-up at his local bakery.
  69. Boyd affectionately recalls modelling for Dior Homme as being like 'cake', and points out that he realised what a great artist Hedi Slimane is.
  70. Boyd says it depends, when it comes to whether or not he forgives people easily.
  71. Boyd carries the following things around with him each day - spells, poison, lotion and a tape recorder.
  72. Boyd does not elaborate when asked to reveal whom he last spoke to on the phone.
  73. Boyd asks, 'What are you getting at here, James?' when asked if he eats meat and which type of meat he most likes to eat.
  74. Boyd ponders, 'Does The Bible lie?' when asked how tidy he is. 
  75. Boyd recently needed to pay some bills but unfortunately forgot to do so.
  76. Boyd seems to think it's not a serious question when asked if he has ever had any major or minor operations.
  77. Boyd selects, 'One that lands in the face', when asked to name his favourite alcoholic tipple.
  78. Boyd recently listened to some music by the Nashville band Old Crow Medicine Show.
  79. Boyd's take on pornography is simply, 'Whatever makes you better, pal'.
  80. Boyd correctly asserts that Harvey Milk was an extremely important person, and that without him human rights would be very different now.
  81. Boyd is not afraid of flying.
  82. Boyd has appeared in fashion spreads in many-a-magazine, for example - Vogue Hommes International, V Man, Doing Bird, Self Service and Vogue Italia.
  83. Boyd has a wide array of favourite actors, but doesn't want to mention them as he feels it would disrespect them to make them into a list of some sort. 
  84. Boyd suggests his most surreal moment was once when he nodded off while driving... then woke up and hit a deer.
  85. Boyd believes that art should change things.
  86. Boyd does not know anyone who has had a sex change operation, but points out that there is plenty of information about that sort of thing on the web should it be required.
  87. Boyd's most keenly played sport is high stakes beach volleyball.
  88. Boyd's best gift that he has ever been given is food.
  89. Boyd confirms, 'This is driving me mad', in relation to being asked these questions.