Quotes by Brion James - Page 1

Work begets work.
Brion James / Actor
Work
Begets
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Wake up! Time to die!
Brion James / Actor
Death
Badass
Blade Runner
Dying
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The bad guys are the best parts.
Brion James / Actor
Bad Guys
Guy
Parts
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Larry Kasdan is a great director.
Brion James / Actor
Directors
Larry
Director
Great Director
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I liked the drama of getting stoned.
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I could talk about Blade Runner forever.
Brion James / Actor
Blade Runner
Blades
Forever
Blade
Runner
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I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.
Brion James / Actor
Accents
Just Do It
Parrots
Picks
Accent
Parrot
Pick
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My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.
Brion James / Actor
Dad
Every Night
Movie Theater
Night
Theater
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You never know what show is going to change your life.
Brion James / Actor
Changing Your Life
Knows
Shows
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I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that.
Brion James / Actor
Kids
Different
Kind
Different Kind
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You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.
Brion James / Actor
Comedy
Knows
Stand Up Comedy
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Blade Runner helped make my career. Everybody was in it. Who knew?
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Blade Runner
Blade
Helped
Runner
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Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.
Brion James / Actor
Careers
Fighting
My Own
Always Own My Own
Stunt
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Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, konnecting people.
Brion James / Actor
Elements
People
Together
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Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, connecting people.
Brion James / Actor
Connecting
Elements
Together
People Nothing More
Together People Nothing
Bringing
Producing
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I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one.
Brion James / Actor
Men
Looks
Want
Myself Man Look
Considered
Leading
Leading Man
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I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.
Brion James / Actor
Character
Film
Television
Television Shows
Twice
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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 / Actor
Care
Don't Care
Television
Want
Love Work Movies
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I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.
Brion James / Actor
Guy
Hate
Negative
People
Play
Love Always Hate
Bad Guy
Love Hate Always
Fantasies
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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 / Actor
Drug
Long
Use
Did
Work Long Your
Work Doing Your
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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 / Actor
Jobs
Accents
Dialect
Done
Fool
Dialects
Gotta
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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 / Actor
Behavior
Genre
Genre Is
Sci Fi
Want
Rules
No Rules
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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 / Actor
Actors
Character
Doe
Character Actor
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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 / Actor
Bad Guys
Blade Runner
Hollywood
Mean
Play
Stars
Blade
Meanest
Runner
Smaller
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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 / Actor
California
Cowboy
Gangsters
Play
Cowboys
Farm
Westerns
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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.
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Broke
House
People
Recovery
Help
Prayed
Studio
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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 / Actor
Abyss
Developing
Character Me Fun
Character Me Process
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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 / Actor
Jobs
Hands
Long
Okay
Particularly
Hand
Script
Soon
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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 / Actor
Evil
Jason
No Point
Play
Sake
Villain
In Other Words
Sees
Slasher
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