Brion James's Quotes

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.

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

I could talk about Blade Runner forever.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Larry Kasdan is a great director.

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

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.

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

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

The bad guys are the best parts.

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.

Work begets work.

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