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.
BILLY CAMPBELLThe 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.
BILLY CAMPBELLI’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 CAMPBELLThere 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 CAMPBELLOn 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.
BILLY CAMPBELLI 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.
BILLY CAMPBELLTo me, the AMC brand is great storytelling – they call it slow-burn storytelling.
BILLY CAMPBELLThe South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.
BILLY CAMPBELLThe 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.
BILLY CAMPBELLI 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.
BILLY CAMPBELLI 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 CAMPBELLIf 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.
BILLY CAMPBELLFor me, the experience of making the show is very much like being in a novel. I enjoy getting the new script. I make a cup of tea and I read it the same way I would read a book, with the same amount of joy.
BILLY CAMPBELLI 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 CAMPBELLOh, I’m nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I’m nerdy about board games.
BILLY CAMPBELLI’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 CAMPBELLSome of the best auditions I’ve ever had have been when my agent called and said, ‘They want you 20 minutes ago, in an office in Century City, to see you for something.’
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