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.
BILLY CAMPBELL
BILLY CAMPBELL
Billy Campbell on issues
Billy Campbell25 quotes“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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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 CampbellBilly Campbell 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.
Billy CampbellBilly Campbell 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 CampbellBilly Campbell The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
Pope John Paul IIPope John Paul II 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.
Billy CampbellBilly Campbell Everything about acting is a challenge. I’m self-conscious. You couldn’t do anything to cause me to be more self-conscious than to stick a camera in my face and have 60 people standing behind it, waiting for me to perform.
Billy CampbellBilly Campbell Four key words–helped make my dreams come true. They are: dedication, balance, risk, and love.
Bonnie BlairBonnie Blair 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 CampbellBilly Campbell 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.’
Billy CampbellBilly Campbell To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling – they call it slow-burn storytelling.
Billy CampbellBilly Campbell 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 CampbellBilly Campbell 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.
Billy CampbellBilly Campbell Oh, I’m nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I’m nerdy about board games.
Billy CampbellBilly Campbell 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 CampbellBilly Campbell 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.
Billy CampbellBilly Campbell 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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Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt We can always walk with them in the rain instead of just lending an umbrella.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh Flowers only wither to bloom again. So shall you break, only to be whole again.
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Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy But what I believe is that if a person’s individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don’t issue mandates to businesses that you’ve got to do this and you’ve got to do that.
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