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The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.

Billy Campbell

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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Gives Nervous President Supposed Thinking
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
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
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.
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Cooking People Sailing
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
The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.
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Country Homeland South Virginia
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.
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Fashion Long Play
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 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.
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Cowboy Independent 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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Imagination Reading Worry
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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Bumps Nice People
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 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
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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Character Guy Middlemen Thinking Try
Some 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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Cities Giving Thinking

The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.

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