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 CAMPBELLI would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn’t enjoy my work.
More Billy Campbell Quotes
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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.
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The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver.
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The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.
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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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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.
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You learn a lot about other people. You learn a lot about yourself.
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To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling – they call it slow-burn storytelling.
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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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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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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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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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Vancouver is one of my favorite places on earth. It’s gray and rainy there a lot of the time, but for some reason, even though it’s gray and rainy, I feel like it’s a sunny day.
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I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn’t enjoy my work.
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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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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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