Billy Campbell Quotes

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• Once something is well-written, then everything else is gravy.

  Billy Campbell

  Gravy, Wells, Written

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE ROCKETEER 20th Anniversary Blu-ray and Season Finale of THE KILLING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 31, 2011.

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• 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. I 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 Campbell

  Fashion, Play, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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. 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.

  Billy Campbell

  Character, Long, Giving

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE KILLING Season 2 and Fan Reaction to the Season 1 Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 31, 2012.

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• So many movies are so formulaic because you've got to get it done in an hour and a half. On a TV series, that's where the really interesting stuff can happen.

  Billy Campbell

  Interesting, Tvs, Done

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE KILLING Season 2 and Fan Reaction to the Season 1 Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 31, 2012.

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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.

  Billy Campbell

  Hair, Oil, Tree

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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. A destination wedding weeds out all the people who might potentially get their noses out of joint, so only the troupers would be there.

  Billy Campbell

  Weed, People, Joints

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• I don't have any complex plans for playing a character. I think all I try to do is not make too many bad guy faces and not ever try to seem too good. I just try to put it in the middle somewhere.

  Billy Campbell

  Character, Thinking, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To me, if I'm reading a fantastic story or I go on a nice first date and I have a wonderful time, I'm not gonna complain because it didn't work out. I'm gonna go on a second date.

  Billy Campbell

  Nice, Reading, Work Out

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE KILLING Season 2 and Fan Reaction to the Season 1 Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 31, 2012.

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• Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.

  Billy Campbell

  Hard Work, Sea, Profound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.

  Billy Campbell

  Lying, Self, Challenges

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling - they call it slow-burn storytelling.

  Billy Campbell

  Storytelling, Brands

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Billy Campbell

  Book, Joy, Tea

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE KILLING Season 2 and Fan Reaction to the Season 1 Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 31, 2012.

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• The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.

  Billy Campbell

  Virginia, England, Homeland

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again.

  Billy Campbell

  Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not a big fan of CGI. I'm not a fan at all, unless they use it in a way that doesn't call attention to itself.

  Billy Campbell

  Fans, Attention, Use

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everything about acting is a challenge. I'm self-conscious. You couldn't do anything to cause me to be more self-conscious than to stick a camera in my face and have 60 people standing behind it, waiting for me to perform.

  Billy Campbell

  Self, People, Waiting

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE KILLING Season 2 and Fan Reaction to the Season 1 Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 31, 2012.

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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

  Favorite Places, Vancouver, Earth

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Billy Campbell

  Mustache, Acting, Actors

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE KILLING Season 2 and Fan Reaction to the Season 1 Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 31, 2012.

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• When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.

  Billy Campbell

  Dream, Escaping, Hollywood

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE KILLING Season 2 and Fan Reaction to the Season 1 Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 31, 2012.

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• A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to widdle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious.

  Billy Campbell

  Self, Battle, Trying

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE KILLING Season 2 and Fan Reaction to the Season 1 Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 31, 2012.

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• 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.

  Billy Campbell

  Thinking, Lovely, Reminiscing

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE ROCKETEER 20th Anniversary Blu-ray and Season Finale of THE KILLING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 13, 2011.

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• I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn't enjoy my work.

  Billy Campbell

  Politician, Enjoy, Horrible

  Interview with Veronica Hsieh, www.amc.com.

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• The mood was terrible. You could see it in everybody's eyes. The body language was just defeated. When they put me in I was hoping I could give us some energy and try to bring us back.

  Billy Campbell

  Eye, Giving, Trying

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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.

  Billy Campbell

  Who I Am, Years, Sea

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Billy Campbell

  Nice, People, Bumps

  "Billy Campbell Talks THE ROCKETEER 20th Anniversary Blu-ray and Season Finale of THE KILLING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 13, 2011.

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