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Billy Campbell

There 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.”
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Believe Roles Thinking
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
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
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
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
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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Country Past Real Trip
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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Board Favorite Fun Games Going Nerdy
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
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 sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn’t until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O’Brian’s ‘Master and Commander’ novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship.
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Children Master Ships Squares
I think it would be lovely to see some features on a disc of ‘The Rocketeer,’ with some reminiscing. I think that would be dynamite.
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Lovely Reminiscing Thinking
The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.
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Country Homeland South Virginia
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
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 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 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

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