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 CAMPBELLThe network wants you to make a thing that’s just a stand-alone episode, so you never get any character or continuity.
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 CAMPBELLThe South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.
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 CAMPBELLThe 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 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.
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 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.’
BILLY CAMPBELLI 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.
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 CAMPBELLI 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?
BILLY CAMPBELLI 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 CAMPBELLI don’t really collect the mementos. I do steal books off of sets. If there’s a library on the set, you can bet that I’ll steal away with a book or two.
BILLY CAMPBELLThis 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 CAMPBELLA 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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