Brion James famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Wake up - time to die.
-- Brion James

#Badass #Wake Up
Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, konnecting people.
-- Brion James

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

#Hate #Play #People
I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that.
-- Brion James

#Kids #Different #Kind
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 #Doe #Actors
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

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

#Men #Looks #Want
Larry Kasdan is a great director.
-- Brion James

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

#Dad #Night #Theater
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

#Jobs #Done #Dialect
Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.
-- Brion James

#Fighting #Careers
The bad guys are the best parts.
-- Brion James

#Guy
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

#Television #Care #Want
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

#Recovery #People #House
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

#Play #Evil #Jason
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

#Want #My Favorite #Behavior
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

#Cowboy #Play #California
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

#Long #Drug #Use
I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.
-- Brion James

#Parrots #Accents #Just Do It
You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.
-- Brion James

#Comedy #Stand Up Comedy
I could talk about Blade Runner forever.
-- Brion James

#Forever #Blade Runner #Blades
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

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

#Character #Television #Film
I liked the drama of getting stoned.
-- Brion James

#Drama
You never know what show is going to change your life.
-- Brion James

#Changing Your Life #Shows

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