Brion James Quotes

I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.
Brion James

Love, Hate, Bad

Blade Runner helped make my career. Everybody was in it. Who knew?
Brion James

Career, Everybody, Knew

I could talk about Blade Runner forever.
Brion James

Talk, Forever, Blade

I couldn't say no to jobs and I couldn't say no to drugs. I'd get high from a movie, I'd be somebody else because I didn't particularly like me, so long as I had a script in my hand, I was okay. As soon as the movie was over, I didn't know what to do.
Brion James

Long, Else, High

I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.
Brion James

Character, Same, Seen

I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that.
Brion James

Movies, Evil, Words

I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.
Brion James

Good, Money, God

I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.
Brion James

Love, Work, Movies

I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that.
Brion James

I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.
Brion James

Character, Bad, Actor

I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.
Brion James

Pick, Accent, Parrot

I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood.
Brion James

Bad, Mean, Play

I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one.
Brion James

Leading, Considered

In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.
Brion James

Work, Long, Until

Larry Kasdan is a great director.
Brion James

Great, Director, Larry

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.
Brion James

Dad, Night, Movie

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.
Brion James

Fool, Job, Done

Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, connecting people.
Brion James

Nothing, Together, Elements

Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.
Brion James

Career, Fighting, Since

The bad guys are the best parts.
Brion James

Best, Bad, Guys

The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.
Brion James

Best, Rules, Behavior

The interesting part of the process is developing the character, you know, why did he become that? Why is the guy a murderer, or why is this guy a pervert, or whatever he is. So that's the fun part for me to delve into the abyss.
Brion James

Fun, Character, Why

Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.
Brion James

Business, Movies, Small

Work begets work.
Brion James

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.
Brion James

Pretty, Comedy, Started

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: February 20, 1945

Died: August 7, 1999

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