Brion James Quotes

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

Wake up! Time to die!

Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, konnecting people.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I could talk about Blade Runner forever.

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

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.

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

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.

You never know what show is going to change your life.

I liked the drama of getting stoned.

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

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

The bad guys are the best parts.

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

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

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.

Larry Kasdan is a great director.

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