Brion James Quotes

• Wake up! Time to die!

  Brion James

  Death, Badass, Blade Runner

  "Fictional character: Leon". "Blade Runner", 1982.

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

  Brion James

  People, Together, Elements

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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.

  Brion James

  Recovery, People, House

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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

  Stars, Mean, Play

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

  Brion James

  Kids, Different, Kind

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• Larry Kasdan is a great director.

  Brion James

  Directors, Larry

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• I liked the drama of getting stoned.

  Brion James

  Drama

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

  Brion James

  Character, Television, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Jobs, Hands, Long

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• I could talk about Blade Runner forever.

  Brion James

  Forever, Blade Runner, Blades

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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

  Long, Drug, Use

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

  Brion James

  Dad, Night, Theater

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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

  Jobs, Done, Dialect

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

  Brion James

  Fighting, Careers, My Own

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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

  Men, Looks, Want

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• The bad guys are the best parts.

  Brion James

  Guy, Bad Guys

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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

  Hate, Play, People

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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

  Character, Doe, Actors

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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

  Television, Care, Want

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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

  Play, Evil, Jason

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

  Brion James

  Comedy, Stand Up Comedy, Knows

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

  Brion James

  Parrots, Accents, Picks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Cowboy, Play, California

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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

  Genre Is, Want, Behavior

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

  Brion James

  Changing Your Life, Shows, Knows

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