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The kind of people that love ‘The Rocketeer’ are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they’re almost always nice people to bump into.

Billy Campbell

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.
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Children Obsessed War
I don’t have time to overthink things, and I don’t have time to get bogged down in stuff. 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.
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Before Bogged Network Overthink Supposed Week
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.
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Cheesy Fun Grateful People Politician
The network wants you to make a thing that’s just a stand-alone episode, so you never get any character or continuity.
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Character Giving Long
On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you’re on a ship for 14 months with 49 other people, if you don’t resolve your issues it literally could mean – and this would be an extreme circumstance – the sinking of the ship.
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Issues Land Mean
The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.
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Degree Feeling Greater Sea Touch
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.
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Hair Moisturizer Oil Shampoo Tree
This is one of the ways in which television can actually be good, and even better than the movies, because it gives you a chance to tell a long story.
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Actually Better Chance Good Long Story Television
I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn’t enjoy my work.
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Enjoy Horrible Politician
I pretend I’m the producer and I think, “If I was making this movie, would I cast myself in this part?,” and if that doesn’t feel right to me, then I don’t even go audition for it.
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Audition Movie Myself Pretend Producer
If I ever get married, I’d like to pick a place so hard to reach that only a few people would turn up-like the North Pole.
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Joint People Weed
A destination wedding weeds out all the people who might potentially get their noses out of joint, so only the troupers would be there.
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Destination Potential Wedding Weed
To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling – they call it slow-burn storytelling.
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Brands Burn Slow Storytelling
Oh, I’m nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I’m nerdy about board games.
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Fun Games Reading
I may be a little long in the tooth to play ‘The Rocketeer.’ But I would love to be a part of that in some form or fashion.
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Fashion Little Play Thing Tooth
I can’t say that I haven’t done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call indicating, when you twirl your mustache.
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Acting Actors Mustache

The kind of people that love ‘The Rocketeer’ are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they’re almost always nice people to bump into.

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