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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

Topics: Day Earth Even Favorite Favorite Places Feel Gray Like Lot Places Rainy Reason Some Sunny Though Time Vancouver I Feel I Feel Like

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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

Topics: Achieved Aside Combination Degree Does Expanse Guess Hard Hard Work Indescribable Infinite Me Peace Profound Sailing Sea Seemingly Simply Solitude Teaches Vessel Work You

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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

Topics: Almost Always Better Better World Bump Good Innocence Kind Love Nice Nice People People Speak Storytelling World

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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. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking.

~Billy Campbell

Topics: Absolutely Along Call Castle Cooking Crew Just Keeping Learning Lines Most Navigation Part Pay People Pulling Raw Ride Sailing Ship Ships Steer Take Takes Who You

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

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If you were to ask my agent, they would confirm this: I'm drawn to locations. What really drew me to 'The 4400,' aside from the fact that it was sci-fi, was the fact that it was shot in the city of my dreams: Vancouver.

~Billy Campbell

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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

Topics: Disc Dynamite Features Lovely See Some Think Would I Think

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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

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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

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

~Billy Campbell

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: July 7th, 1959

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