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 CAMPBELLI 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.
More Billy Campbell Quotes
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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 South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.
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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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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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You learn a lot about other people. You learn a lot about yourself.
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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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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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To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling – they call it slow-burn storytelling.
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Many who wave American flags also practice discrimination on the basis of race. Many who wave American flags practice anti-Semitism. We think that betrays the fundamental ideals of our democracy.
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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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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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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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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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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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