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I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?

Billy Campbell

I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don’t play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy – you just play a person.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Cowboy Independent Play
Nice, People, Bumps, Inocence, Always
BILLY CAMPBELL

Dream Escaping Hollywood
I don’t really collect the mementos. I do steal books off of sets. If there’s a library on the set, you can bet that I’ll steal away with a book or two.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Book Library Steal Two
Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can’t just ride along.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Cooking People Sailing
My favorite board game is a board game I’m working on right now. It’s a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it’s going to be fun.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Board Favorite Fun Games Going Nerdy
I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Children Obsessed War
I’ve done some things that have been quite interesting, but as grateful as I am for having been on ‘Dynasty,’ it was just so cheesy. That’s half the reason it was so much fun for people to watch, but it’s not so fun to have to say those lines.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Cheesy Fun Grateful People Politician
You learn a lot about other people. You learn a lot about yourself.
BILLY CAMPBELL

About Learn People You Yourself
I’m not sitting there thinking for a week and a half, before I’m supposed to go in front of a network president to do something. That just gives you time to be nervous.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Gives Nervous President Supposed Thinking
I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn’t until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O’Brian’s ‘Master and Commander’ novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Children Master Ships Squares
I don’t have any complex plans for playing a character. I think all I try to do is not make too many bad guy faces and not ever try to seem too good. I just try to put it in the middle somewhere.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Character Guy Middlemen Thinking Try
There have been times when I’ve been asked to do things and I’ve thought, “This is great! This is a great script. But, I do not believe myself in this role.”
BILLY CAMPBELL

Believe Roles Thinking
To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling – they call it slow-burn storytelling.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Brands Burn Slow Storytelling
I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn’t enjoy my work.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Enjoy Horrible Politician
I shampoo only once a week or so, with tree tea oil shampoo. And when I slap moisturizer on my face – just some stuff I bought in the grocery store – I pile it through my hair.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Hair Moisturizer Oil Shampoo Tree
I would love to see a sequel to ‘The Rocketeer.’ I’d love to see that! I don’t know that I would be in it.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Fashion Long Play

I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?

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I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?

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