The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.
BILLY CAMPBELLYou learn a lot about other people. You learn a lot about yourself.
More Billy Campbell Quotes
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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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I shampoo only once a week or so, with tree tea oil shampoo. And when I slap moisturizer on my face – just some stuff I bought in the grocery store – I pile it through my hair.
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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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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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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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I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn’t enjoy my work.
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You learn a lot about other people. You learn a lot about yourself.
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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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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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To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling – they call it slow-burn storytelling.
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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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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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I’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.
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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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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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