Billy Campbell Quotes

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.

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• Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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  • Will
  • Tomorrow

• I'm a good driver.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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  • Driver

• I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.

  

  Olivier Martinez
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  • Important
  • American

• I try to get in people's heads. My job is to get the ball, so if I'm talking trash to an O-lineman or quarterback or receiver, and they start thinking about me, that's good, because they aren't thinking about the game anymore.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

  

  Sally Hawkins
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• In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

  

  Larry Niven
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• So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

  

  Jackie Cooper
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  • Work
  • Yourself

• Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Music
  • Business
  • Experience

• I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Family
  • Love
  • Character

• My dad was a big car guy. If you wanted to spend time with my dad, he was working on the car.

  

  Adam Ferrara
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• I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

  

  Van Jones
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  • Future

• The Dark Satirist, like the Dark Knight - that could be a good name for a superhero.

  

  Bassem Youssef
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  • Name

• UFC is a moneymaking machine. The most important thing for this organization is a brand and its marketing. They have a couple of good fighters, and there are also some very good champions, but they are trying to keep everyone at the same level. The most important thing for them is the promotion, not the fighters.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
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  • Important
  • Trying

• QVC has been very good to me.

  

  Barry Manilow
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  • Me
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• When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
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• It's like some weird excuse for high school kids to vomit. It's not good. It's stupid. I'm sure that's not what St. Patrick's Day is supposed to be about, but who knows.

  

  Frances McDormand
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  • School
  • Kids

• My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and seeing some large bones sticking out of the ground. He was enough of a geologist, being a sand and gravel man, to have a pretty good notion that they were dinosaur bones.

  

  Jack Horner
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  • Father
  • Pretty

• I'm really bad at baseball.

  

  Cameron Dallas
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  • Baseball
  • Really

• One time, this guy at this music festival would not let me off the hook that I was Percy Jackson. He was like, 'Quit lying to me, bro, I know you're Percy Jackson.' I was like, 'I swear to God, I'm not Percy Jackson.'

  

  Dylan Minnette
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• Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
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  • Music

• As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Attention
  • Focus
  • Actor

• The Washington Bullets are changing their name. They don't want their team to be associated with crime. From now on, they'll just be known as the Bullets.

  

  Jay Leno
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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
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