Billy Campbell Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 7, 1959

Topics

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The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.

John H. Reagan

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Free speech is one of the founding principles of our republic.

Andrew Rosenthal

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I am a rootless individual, but when I land in Belize, I have that feeling of comfort that I am returning home.

Michael Ashcroft

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I can't understand people who give up and commit suicide. If I have a bad day, I figure tomorrow will be better. And even if it isn't, at least it isn't any worse.

Rod McKuen

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I have always been attracted to apostrophe, perhaps because of its resemblance to prayer. A voice reaches out to something beyond itself that cannot answer it. I find that moving in part because it enacts what is true of all address and communication on some level - it cannot fully be heard, understood, or answered.

Mary Szybist

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After all those years in the business, I asked myself, 'Am I really any good? Or am I only good because I'm with good people - a Murray Pearlstein, a Ralph Lauren?

Joseph Abboud

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I like to laugh and have a good time rather than brood and be sullen.

Jon Hamm

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I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

Dorothy Fields

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If I weren't a showrunner, I'd be a much more accomplished mother; if I were not a mother, I would be a much more accomplished showrunner. I have to be okay with getting a B in both.

Courtney A. Kemp

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Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.

Bob Cousy

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Well, you know... I grew up in postwar Britain, when you were lucky to get anything to eat. People in America have absolutely no conception of how austere England was after the war. While you were all sort of eating butter and eggs, we were eating rabbit. That's what there was in the butcher shop.

Tim Curry

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Our films have immense power, and we have always accepted international artistes with open arms. If Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone can do wonders in Hollywood, then they can also do it here.

Remo D'Souza

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