Brion James Quotes

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• Wake up - time to die.
• 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…
• Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, konnecting people.
• 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'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.
• You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.
• I could talk about Blade Runner forever.
• 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…
• I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.
• I liked the drama of getting stoned.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.…
• 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…
• I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one.
• 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.

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