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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.

Billy Campbell

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
You learn a lot about other people. You learn a lot about yourself.
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About Learn People You Yourself
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 grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.
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Children Obsessed War
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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Cities Giving Thinking
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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Bumps Nice People
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
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
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
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.
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Fashion Long Play
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
To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling – they call it slow-burn storytelling.
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Brands Burn Slow Storytelling
For me, the experience of making the show is very much like being in a novel. I enjoy getting the new script. I make a cup of tea and I read it the same way I would read a book, with the same amount of joy.
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Book Joy Novel Script Tea
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.
BILLY CAMPBELL

Earth Favorite Places Vancouver
The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.
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Country Homeland South Virginia

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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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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