Happy Birthday actor Billy Campbell

Born: July 7, 1959 in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

QUOTES:

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

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.

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. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.

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.

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

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