Brion James Quotes

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

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.

Larry Kasdan is a great director.

I could talk about Blade Runner forever.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.